Richard Banyon is presently consulting in the Carle Place, New York school district as assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and personnel. His educational career spans over thirty-five years as a classroom teacher, guidance counselor, dean, building administrator, and central office administrator in New York City and Long Island. He most recently was assistant superintendent for personnel, curriculum, and instruction for the Deer Park school district, where he piloted a fully integrated model of induction specifically focused on recruiting and retaining teachers and administrators. He has facilitated national and regional workshops, and conducted job-embedded professional development on such issues as supervision, observation, evaluation, and preparing new teachers for the classroom. With Banyon, Stein, and Richin, he is co-founder of the "Connecting Character to Conduct(c)" consulting team and co-author of the book of the same title. Banyon enjoys the "lights" of Broadway in his spare time and bring his love of music and the theatre into any and all aspects of his professional career.