Adam Carter

Adam Carter is the executive director of Marshall Street, the program development division of Summit Public Schools. Marshall partners with schools and districts across the country to support model design, leadership development, systematic improvement, and teacher training. All Marshall initiatives focus on excellence and equitable access to education for all students. As Summit’s founding Chief Academic Officer, Adam and his team led the design of Summit’s school model and educator pathways programs. Today, tens of thousands of families and hundreds of public schools have embraced the Summit model. Adam was a teacher in Argentina and Indonesia, where he founded the Innovative Schools Programme, a NGO program advancing school improvement in West Java. He was a founding teacher at Summit Preparatory Charter School, where he received California’s New Outstanding Teacher Award. Previously, he taught in district schools in California. Adam is an Aspen-Pahara fellow, a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California, and he holds degrees from Stanford University and Presbyterian College.