Matthew Mingle is the superintendent of the Warren Township School District in Warren, New Jersey; a part-time lecturer in the Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education department at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick, New Jersey; and a former president of New Jersey ASCD. Mingle credits his selection as an ASCD Emerging Leader in 2011 as a transformational moment for his career that gave him access to some of the leading thinkers in the national education landscape.