Best-selling author Samuel Casey Carter showcases a dozen mainstream schools that focus on a culture of character as their foundation and have achieved extraordinary results.
Samuel Casey Carter is SVP Global Corporate Social Responsibility for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the Executive Director of the HMH Foundation. He was previously president of the U.S. division of CfBT Education Trust and president of National Heritage Academies, a charter school management company that operates 67 schools in 8 states, where he oversaw corporate strategy, communications, and the implementation of the company's educational program.
Mr. Carter is the author of On Purpose: How Great School Cultures Form Strong Character, which showcases 12 exemplary schools to explain how school cultures are made, how they form student character, and how great school cultures ultimately harness student character to drive achievement (Corwin/SAGE).
He is also the author of No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools, which documents the effective practices of high-performing schools that refuse to make poverty an excuse for academic failure. In addition to On Purpose and No Excuses, Mr. Carter has edited three other books, including Core Virtues, a literature-based character education program for parents and teachers of elementary school students. His articles, essays, and columns have appeared in more than 180 newspapers and magazines.
Mr. Carter lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Suzanne, whom he met while they were both teachers, and their three daughters: Kirby, Casey Elizabeth, and Lucy.
