Dr. Wasta has 39 years of experience in public education all in the Bristol CT public schools. He served as a regular classroom teacher, special education teacher, special education administrator, deputy superintendent, superintendent of schools. As deputy superintendent/superintendent he led the district through a multi- year comprehensive reform process that resulted in dramatic improvement in student performance.

Michael was a consultant for the Leadership and Learning Center in Denver, CO for 8 years, making presentations nationwide and outside of the country on systemic reform, holistic accountability and data teams.

As a consultant to the Connecticut State Department of Education for five years he lead in the design and implementation of the Connecticut Accountability for Learning Initiative, a statewide systemic reform program designed to improve student performance in the state’s lowest performing districts. This program, modeled after the Bristol process, produced documented results indicating that the performance gap between urban districts and suburban districts began to close.