David A. Squires, Ph.D. 

David A. Squires is the designer of the “A Balanced Curriculum” process and web-site. In development for over ten years, the process has been successful in schools in Red Bank, New Jersey; Greenville, NC; Washington, DC; District 13 in Brooklyn, NY; the Enlarged City School District of Newburgh, NY; and Hertford County, NC.

Currently, Dr. Squires is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in a Doctoral Program at Southern Connecticut State University. Dr. Squires earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Education from Allegheny College. He taught English and creative writing at East Technical High School in Cleveland and Churchill Area High School outside Pittsburgh. After seven years of teaching, he continued his education at the University of Pittsburgh, working at the Learning Research and Development Center for three years while completing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Supervision with minors in Reading/Language Arts and Educational Administration. 

In 1979, Research for Better Schools, Inc. in Philadelphia hired Dr. Squires to develop research-based approaches to instructional improvement. He also worked with the Delaware State Department of Education to develop research-based standards for elementary and secondary schools. From this work, he published Effective Schools and Classrooms: A Research-Based Perspective through the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in 1983.

In 1981 Dr. Squires became the Supervisor of Curriculum and Staff Development for the Red Bank Public Schools, a pre-K through 8th grade district in New Jersey, a position which also included district-wide responsibility for Chapter I, ESL, testing, affirmative action, school improvement, grants and facilitation of the Comer School development Program. Serving 70% minority students with 65% below the poverty level, Red Bank improved student achievement from below to above grade level over the next decade. Schools in the district received recognition for outstanding parent programs, demonstration grants for effective schools, and a national award for outstanding Chapter I programs in both Reading and Mathematics.

In 1994, Dr. Squires left Red Bank and became Director of Teaching and Learning for the Corner School Development Program at Yale University, leaving in 2002.

Dr. Squires' work is available in a book entitled: Aligning and Balancing the Standards-Based Curriculum from Corwin Press or from Amazon.com.

Resume of Dr Squires