Dave Lehman is the former principal and teacher at the Lehman Alternative Community School, a public middle and high school, part of the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) in Ithaca, New York. The school was re-named after him and his wife Judy – the school Secretary – by the ICSD School Board upon his retirement after 30 years. Dave is also an educational consultant and school change coach, working with teachers and principals throughout the country and Canada in creating professional, collaborative learning communities. He also works with communities to create new, small, democratically-run high schools, Early College high schools, STEM schools, and conversions of large high schools to clusters of small high schools including Big Picture high school. Dave is also the executive editor of Connections, online journal of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF).