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CADRE 2008-2009 click on the name below for bio and more information about that Cadre member
About Members of the On-Site Cadre
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Registration for On-Site Facilitation Services Name:_____________________________ School District:____________________________ Position:____________________________ School:__________________________________ Work Phone:____________________ E-Mail:_______________________________________ Institute(s) in which enrolled: _____________________________________________________ Requested Facilitator (if known): __________________________________________________
The names of some
of the facilitators along with their contact information, contracting
fees, and a description of each cadre member’s experience & areas of
expertise are presented below. As additional consultants join the
cadre, we will update this information.
Ansley, Michelle Description of Experience: Michelle Ansley works at the building level, facilitating large and small groups of educators regarding teaching and learning. These groups have begun to tackle issues relating to defining essential learning targets, backwards unit planning, common assessments, informative assessments, and grading. The collaboration time that has been provided to teachers, has resulted in rich dialogue, and given teachers new insight into what to teach and how to assess student learning. Description of strongest professional interests: Education is a fascinating arena for Michelle who is most interested in professional development. She enjoys helping others think deeply about the what, why, and how of instruction while allowing them to come to collaborative solutions that will best impact student learning. Her desire is to continue as an agent for change within the education system.
Beam, Rob Description of Experience: In his role as an instructional specialist for the Denver Public Schools, Rob Beam has the opportunity to engage in thoughtful productive professional development for the elementary math/science teachers. He has acted as a teacher leader, building facilitator and staff developer for fifteen elementary schools. Rob is currently supporting several district initiatives including the implementation of standards-based progress reports, the roll out of a new edition of the district math curriculum, the pilot program of a new literacy-based science curriculum and development of a web-based curriculum planning guide. Description of strongest professional interests: In the new landscape of 21st century education Rob has focused my attention on integrating the valuable components of web 2.0 communication technologies into the daily professional lives of administrators, teachers and students. These tools represent the future environment all citizens will need competency in to be successful in our modern world.
Crawford, Karen
Description of Experience:
Description of strongest professional interests:
Dyer, Kathy Description of Experience: Kathy Dyer is a Change Coach with the Center for Transforming Learning and Teaching (CTLT). With 16 years in the field of education (classroom to central office and elementary through high school) and 13 years in the corporate world, she brings a medley of outlooks, attitudes and experiences, which benefit the work in the changing world of education. As a professional dedicated to student achievement and facilitating the development of a life-long learner attitude in both children and adults, Kathy’s role is to serve as a coach to districts, buildings, teams and teachers who wish to more fully-implement information based educational practices. This includes, but is not limited to, working with principals, building leadership teams (BLT), grade level or content teams or groups of individual teachers either at a single site or from across the district. Coaching focuses on using data, clarifying learning, developing assessments, becoming proficient with formative assessment strategies, using assessment results to make instructional changes, looking at student work, engaging students as learners, working toward SIP goals and is structured in a variety of formats. Kathy frequently participates in staff meetings, team meetings and leadership team meetings. Description of strongest professional interests: Kathy’s passion is working to transforming learning and learners.
Freeman, Stacy
Description of Experience: Stacy
Freeman teaches at the University of Phoenix (adult learners) both new
and experienced teachers in the Masters for Curriculum and Instruction
and Teacher Education Programs. The University of Phoenix works very
hard on the aspect of facilitation. Stacy has provided Emotional
Intelligence seminars for government employees and worked for a major
publishing company doing in-service, workshops and consulting for eight
years in the western states of the United States including Colorado. Her
consulting work has been in the areas of vocabulary, hands-on science,
and using expository text in the classroom. Currently she works as
an instructional coach in Brighton 27J coaching and doing workshops at
both the school and district level.
Frunzi, Kay Description of Experience: Kay Frunzi has been an educator for more than 30 years. She received a Ph.D. in Administration, Supervision, and Curriculum Development from University of Colorado Denver. Her experiences are strong and varied, including serving as an elementary teacher, assistant principal, principal, adjunct faculty at the university, principal coaching, and researcher. As principal, she served in five schools, ECE-8th grades in the suburbs and inner city with 427 to 709 students. Most recently, Kay is working for McREL as a principal consultant.
Description
of strongest professional interests:
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Teaming and collaboration/ Professional learning communities
Hankle, Beth Description of Experience: Beth Hankle’s initial teaching job was as an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics for Metro State College of Denver in 1990. Through this experience, she taught adults and young adults alike for nine years. She has since worked at Englewood High School teaching math and web design. Beth serves as the Mathematics Instructional Leader as well as the Building Technology Coordinator. I have begun this last year using data in my classroom to inform instruction through PLC work and worked to get other teachers to do the same. I have had the exciting opportunity to speak to hundreds of teachers through the C2D3 program about using data in their classrooms. Additionally, I presented most of the new teacher induction training this last year for the District as well as taught our EHS staff how to begin analyzing their MAP data. Description of strongest professional interests: I am extremely interested in helping other teachers to use data in their classrooms to transform their students into learners. Students who know what proficiency looks like, know the expectations, and know what they know and do not know are students with higher motivation and achievement. I want students and teachers alike to see school as a successful place.
Harrington, John Description of Experience: As a teacher for thirteen years at Morey Middle School, John Harrington also served in several other capacitates, including: member of district curriculum redesign committee for four years; field test teacher for 7th and 8th grade curriculum; and secondary science staff developer. Description of strongest professional interests: John joined the Front Range BOCES Facilitator Cadre because he wanted the opportunity to network with other educators in the state and discuss different strategies and plans for professional development.
Herm, Judi Description of Experience: Judi Herm has been an educator for more than 30 years. As a teacher and a principal in elementary and middle schools including Title I schools, Judi has always had a profound commitment to meeting all students’ learning needs and a deep belief that the key to student success lies in high quality professional development. Devoted to the study and practice of school reform, she has extensive training and consulting experience with K-12 administrators and teachers in widely diverse settings where her efforts have helped students and the adults in their communities perform optimally. Currently “retired,” Judi is the founder and president of Mindful Consulting, Ltd. She consults nationally as an ASCD Faculty member on the What Works in Schools Cadre and for the National Urban Alliance. She also is a mentor for pre-service teachers in the University of Northern Colorado Center for Urban Education Program and serves as a team leader for a Colorado Department of Education School Support Team. Judi has a passionate, indomitable spirit, and she is fully committed to work with you to do whatever it takes to help you and your students achieve your goals. Description of strongest professional interests:
- Classroom
Instruction That Works (and CITW for English Language Learners)
Holt, Nan
Description of Experience: Nan
Holt was a special educator for 20 years with most of her teaching
career in Cherry Creek School District. As a teacher of the hearing
impaired and as a speech/language specialist, she taught special needs
children from PreK- 12th grade. Her passion became literacy and
the belief that all children need and should be literate. She
team-taught a high school reading class with a reading specialist. Based
upon this unique experience, she was asked to present at reading
conferences. Nan was an instructional induction coach and mentor (S.T.A.R.
mentor) for 3 years in CCSD. She supported special educators new to the
profession. Her responsibilities included developing and teaching
classes for new teachers. Description of strongest professional interests: Nan’s strongest professional interests are to motivate and to be able to change teachers’ thinking in understanding how the pyramid of interventions would work within their schools; to encourage interventionists and staff to analyze and to collaborate on how all are best serving students; and to facilitate the growth of a faculty to feel empowered to believe that all students can achieve to the best of their abilities.
Kelly, Bonnie Description of Experience: Bonnie Kelly currently serves as a literacy coordinator for the secondary schools in the Cherry Creek District. As coordinator Bonnie works with all administrators, content coordinators and teachers to advance student achievement in reading and writing; design, update, and implement curriculum; provide ongoing staff development; research best practices for closing the achievement gap, and help to monitor student progress with formative/summative assessments. She has consulted with school districts in Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota for 9 years. Bonnie also serves as an adjunct professor at DU as part of the teacher education program, teaching literacy to all secondary candidates. Previously she taught at Cherry Creek High School for 24 years in the language arts department and coordinated the reading program.
Kerschen, Tina
Description of Experience: Tina
Kerschen is a retired Executive Director of Learning Services; Director
of Curriculum, Assessment & Instruction; induction director, content
specialist, staff developer, trainer and facilitator, clinical
professor, and classroom teacher. She has worked extensively as a
coach to administrators and teacher leaders, facilitator, trainer, team
leader, supervisor of schools, and project director. Areas of professional expertise and experience include:
Lubbers, Lyndy Description of Experience: Lyndy Lubbers is an induction coach for the St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont Colorado and has 29 years of educational experience. She has a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education and an additional 80 hours of course work beyond her masters. Lyndy has taught elementary students as a classroom teacher, college students as a clinical professor, and adults through professional courses in the St. Vrain Valley School District. As a clinical professor Lyndy coaches beginning teachers who were getting their masters degree though CU Boulder. Part of her assignment included a methods course on writing for elementary teachers at the university. Currently in her role as an induction coach, Lyndy works with novice, first year teachers. She also teaches a district mentoring class to train classroom teachers to work with new teachers. Additional responsibilities include teaching a primary writing class, coordinating the mentoring program in the district, organizing student teacher seminars and overseeing the induction of novice coaches. In the past 2 years, Lyndy has presented at 3 national conferences on the St. Vrain teacher induction program
Maly, Susan Description of Experience: Over the thirty-four years of Susan Maly’s educational career, she has taught in five states from elementary through university levels. For the past three years Susan has also served as a Student Achievement Coach at Westlake Middle School in the Adams 12 School District. Her primary responsibilities in this role included working with both new and experienced teachers through co-teaching, modeling lessons, cognitive coaching, facilitating data discussions, facilitating the creation of action plans using best instructional practice, and guiding the implementation and evaluation of those plans. She has also been actively involved in school reform at the building level through the creation of PLCs, leadership teams, an 80-20 standards based grading model, a middle school honors program, in curriculum framework revision for language arts, in the creation of in-common formative and summative assessments, and in facilitating vertical alignment discussions between the middle and high school levels. This year Susan presented at the NSDC on coaching and data discussions as well as presenting at the CAMLE and CASE conferences on standards-based grading using an 80/20 model. Description of strongest professional interests: Susan is a passionate believer that a positive school culture embedded with ongoing staff learning and collaboration, high expectations for staff and students, and using data as the factor that drives best instructional practice are magic ingredients in the recipe for student success!
Mariotti, Anita Description of Experience: Anita Mariotti’s career has taken her out of her own classroom and into the classroom of others. Anita believes that teachers are the greatest asset in education. Her greatest interest is working with teachers to find ways to create learner centered classrooms where students have a vested interest in their own growth and success. Another one of her goals is to help educators to come together in productive, professional, learning communities and to help change the classroom from a place of isolated practice to a place where collaboration with colleagues is the norm. When teachers have the leadership, tools, and resources they need, positive change is inevitable. Description of strongest professional interests: Currently Anita is the literacy/instructional coach at Brighton Heritage Academy in the Brighton 27J school district. This is her first year in the Brighton 27J school district. Previously she worked as a district literacy coach in Douglas County and as a literacy coach, literacy teacher, and English teacher in Jefferson County. Anita holds masters degrees in literacy and instructional technology. She is currently completing the administrative leadership program at CU Denver.
Mills, Lori Description of Experience: Lori Mills has over 3 years in education and currently works an Instructional Specialist for Denver Public Schools. She has served in several roles including classroom teacher, reading specialist, and literacy coaching. Lori’s work with coaches consisted of looking at data and making instructional decisions based on the findings. They worked with data and how to instruct teachers about DATA teams, SMART goals and then instructional strategies that support the SMART goals. She has facilitated conversations with teachers on unwrapping standards and looking at the curriculum to see how the standards align with what is being taught. Description of strongest professional interests: Lori has a passion for working with teachers around looking at data, (CSAP, Benchmarks, DRA2, etc.) looking the curriculum and making instructional decisions based on their data. Her passion is reading and working with teachers and building capacity of the reading process and how to differentiate small group instruction.
O’Brian, Julie Description of Experience: Julie O’Brian is the Director of the Center for Transforming Learning and Teaching (CTLT) in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver (UCD). Before coming to CTLT, O’Brian was a state coordinator for the Education Commission of the States where she provided information and technical assistance to state education policy makers across the country and acted as the organizational lead on Educational Accountability policy and system design. Additionally, Julie has also served as an Education Policy Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. and an education policy advisor to Colorado Governor, Roy Romer. A Colorado native, Julie received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in mathematics and computer science and a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University. She is currently a doctoral student at UCD. Description of strongest professional interests: Julie’s expertise is in standards-based education, using assessment to support learning, data-driven instructional practice, educational accountability, teacher quality, educational technology (including instructional applications and data technology system architecture) and education policy and system design.
Pearce, Ann Description of Experience: Ann Pearce provides training, coaching, and consultation to systems in order to help schools improve student achievement through professional development of individuals and development of the system’s capacity to learn and be adaptive. In addition to her work as a Training Associate for Adaptive Schools and for Cognitive CoachingSM, she provides trainings in a variety of topics including Professional Learning Communities, Adaptive Schools, Cognitive Coaching, Data-Driven Dialogue, Differentiating Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, and effective interventions for adolescents with reading difficulties. Her doctoral work focused on effective leadership for innovation and organizational change and she often provides facilitation for resolution of sticky problems in both healthy and toxic environments. Participants in her workshops comment on her positive energy, passion, depth and breadth of expertise, knowledge of research and best practices, and ability to inspire people to recommit to their educational mission to make a difference for every student. Prior to working as a consultant, Ann spent 40 years in various educational roles including teaching in general and special education (kindergarten through university) and a variety of administrative and leadership roles at the building, district, and state levels. She recently retired as a supervisor with the Colorado Department of Education where she helped facilitate cross-unit collaboration and provided trainings for CDE consultants in the use of effective facilitation strategies and Cognitive CoachingSM. In addition to her consulting work, Ann provides leadership in a variety of professional organizations and is currently President of the Colorado Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Description of strongest professional interests: Ann’s interests include: literacy, coaching, data-driven dialogue, problem-resolving, differentiated instruction, Response to Intervention, change processes, system planning, designing and implementing improvement plans, and assessing system progress, system-wide positive behavior supports.
Reiss, Karla
Description of Experience:
Karla Reiss
is the author of Leadership Coaching for Educators; Bringing Out
the Best in School Administrators, and winner of the National
Staff Development Council Book of the Year Award. She is also a
contributing author of Coaching; Approaches and Perspectives.
Karla is currently the founder of The Change Place, a consulting,
coaching and training organization that offers numerous organizational
improvement services including:
Romke, Mary Beth Description of Experience: Mary Beth Romke, is a Change Coach with the Center for Transforming Learning and Teaching (CTLT) and a Curriculum Mapping Consultant with Collaborative Learning, Inc. in Westmont, Illinois. Eleven years in the field of education, and three years in the corporate world has helped shape her approach to working in the evolving world of education. As a professional dedicated to student achievement and the instillation of " life-long learner" attitudes in children and adults, Mary Beth’s role is to serve as a coach to students, parents, teachers, leadership teams and districts that employ standards based educational practices. Coaching focuses on using data, clarifying learning, developing assessments, becoming proficient with formative assessment strategies, using assessment results to make instructional changes, looking at student work, engaging students as learners and working toward SIP goals using a variety of structural formats.
Description of strongest professional
interests: Her interests include brain-based research, the
chaos theory, Habits of Mind and formative assessment. Mary Beth’s
passion is in standards-based education, using assessment to support
learning, data-driven instructional practice and student use of data.
Sanders, Sue Description of Experience: : As both an English teacher and assistant principal, Sue Sanders has worked in schools with diverse populations including those with a number of underachieving students. Currently, she is a job coach for alternative licensure teachers and participates in school reviews using the CDE standards. She has experience and expertise in the following areas:
Description of strongest professional interests: Working with staffs, small groups, and individuals to help translate formal and informal assessment data into effective classroom practice. Mentoring beginning teachers and assistant principals, as well as reviewing master schedules to help teachers best meet students' needs.
Sargent, Amanda Description of Experience: Amanda Auer has worked in both Jefferson County School District and St. Vrain Valley School District. While a classroom teacher (kindergarten, first and second grade), Amanda had the opportunity to serve as a team leader, a member of the design team and a member of the school improvement team. She currently works for the Office of Professional Development in St. Vrain Valley as an induction coach working with novice and alternative licensed teachers. In this capacity, Amanda provides a variety of support that includes: mentor, resource provider, data coach, classroom supporter, learning facilitator and catalyst for change. She also co-teaches the Alternative Teacher License Program Cohort and Why Didn’t I Learn This in College. She believes the opportunity to work with adult learners is a privilege. Amanda strives to provide a clear focus on student learning in the classroom. Description of strongest professional interests: As a believer in life long learning she has recently taken part in Cognitive Coaching, Data-Driven Dialog, Mentoring in the 21st Century, Training for Results, Professional Learning Communities and has attended conferences held by the New Teacher Center and National Staff Development Council.
Schwartz, Linda Description of Experience: Linda Schwartz has taught English at the high school level for 20 years, serving as head of the English department for 9 years during which time she helped open a new high school. She was responsible for being an instructional leader in several areas of curriculum including reading and writing across the curriculum, SBE planning, and assessment. Her duties included planning and facilitating a district-wide in-service on SBE planning and assessment. She has worked as a consultant training teachers on standards based planning and assessment in many districts around Colorado and even in New Orleans. Additionally, Linda was a member of the team that created the SBE Operators Manual and she has worked extensively with new teacher training as well. Description of strongest professional interests: Linda's strongest professional interest would be in curriculum and teacher training. She tends to be a "big picture" person and enjoys working with teachers to efficiently plan with the "big picture" in mind, aligning their assessment and instruction to the essential learning and end results. She has experienced the value of thorough SBE planning and good assessment in the classroom and has seen the wonders it can produce.
Sauer, Charl Lee Description of Experience: Charl Lee Sauer has worked in education for about 30 years as a high school language arts and social studies teacher, a middle school assistant principal, a Director of Human Resources & Professional Development (2 districts), Interim Director of Learning Services, and independent consultant for a wide-range of projects and multiple districts. She has recently conducted training in Teaching and Reinforcing Writing across Content Areas and, within the last five years, Supporting Readers Across Content Areas for secondary teachers. In conjunction with her part time work with Front Range BOCES for Teacher Leadership, she develops and coordinates professional learning projects, facilitates planning teams, assists the Executive Director in supporting the Board, and has conducted program reviews. Description of strongest professional interests:
-Facilitation of Planning & Problem-Solving Groups
Tonski, Vicki Description of Experience: Vicki Tonski uses her strong and varied background of practical experiences in K-12 schools to design and develop professional learning support for individual schools and districts. She has been an educator for 28 years, having worked as a general classroom teacher, special educator, building principal, central office assessment specialist, and professional development coordinator. Description of strongest professional interests: Vicki’s passion for seeing the unique potential of both students and adults manifested in an effective professional learning community drives all of her work. Her areas of specialization are school culture, PLCs, school improvement, systems change, focusing on results and high-quality evidence-based instructional practices. Currently, these areas are all valuable in delivering RtI (Response to Intervention) trainings across Colorado.
Whitacre, Robin Description of Experience: With over 15 years in education and experiences ranging from elementary and middle school classrooms and administration, Robin currently serves as a School Leadership Coach and Program Coordinator for a School Reform Support organization in Denver, Colorado and NWEA Facilitator for MAP Assessment program. She has also worked on a district team as a teacher to write and implement District Performance Assessments. As a school administrator, Robin implemented multi-age classrooms, looping configuration, a Transitional Assistance Program for homeless children and directed several Experiential Outdoor Education programs. She has some experience implementing PLCs, Critical Friends protocols/groups, classroom walkthroughs and parent volunteer training program. In her role as both a school administrator and Leadership Coach, Robin facilitated school improvement teams in collecting and using data as part of a system to set goals for school improvement/reform, and implement and evaluate those efforts. As a Leadership Coach, she collaborated with other coaches to develop coaching outcomes, program alignment, program evaluation plan and other organizational processes and documents. Description of strongest professional interests: Robin is passionate about assisting schools with school improvement efforts, especially around effective use of data and collaborating with school districts to develop systems and structures to support school improvement efforts.
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Upcoming Opportunities FEATS Summer 2010 Thinking Maps: Write from the Beginning The Teacher Leadership Certificate Getting Grounded in Teacher Leadership Data Dialogue Facilitator Collaborator and Facilitator Curriculum and Assessment Instructional Specialist Staff Developer Moving into Action Reflective Coach Intervention & Learning Strategies Network Opportunities (Sponsored by ILSN) Improving Education Opportunities for ASD Enhancing Communication Skills for ASD Positive Behavior Supports for ASD Enhancing Social Skills for ASD Special Education Litigation Prevention RtI at the Secondary Level Candidate Support for National Board Certification (Sponsored by NBPTS) |
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