Consultants - see links below each name for more information:

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• Jamie Federick Almanzán, Associate at Pacific Educational Group - School Reform, Equity
  • Profile

• Carolyn Ash, former program director for the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) - Equity
  • Pacific Educational Group Profile
    
    
• Robert Barr, researcher - At-risk Children and Youth, Teacher Education, Alternative Schools
  • Profile
  • Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools: 50 Proven Strategies for Revitalizing At-Risk Students and Low-Performing Schools (with William Parrett)
    

• Donna Beegle, consultant - Diversity, Poverty
• Educating Children of Poverty
• Communication Across Barriers
• "Recommendations for Teachers, Administrators, and All Educators" - downloadable PDF file.
  
  
• Bonnie Benesh, Organizational Change Consultant - Brain Based Learning
  • Topics summary
  • brain based learning models
    
    
• Susan Castillo, Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction
  • Healthy Kids Learn Better Coalition Day
    
    
• Bill Denney, consultant -Time/Scheduling
  • Master Schedule Design for Middle Level Schools
    
    
• Education Development Center, (EDC) international non-profit health & learning organization
  • Improving Schools
  • Project LEAD
    
    
• Lily Eskelsen, secretary-treasurer, National Education Association - Change/Values
  • New Teacher Workshop
    
    
• Michael Fullan, University of Toronto - Change
  • Profile
• Change Forces
  
  
• Brooke Haycock, Artist-in-Residence with the Educaiton Trust
  • "Much Ado About Teaching"

• Gary Howard, REACH Center for Multicultural Education - Achievement Gap, Equity
• School Improvement for All: Reflections on the Achievement Gap
• We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools

• Jennifer James, consultant, cultural anthropologist - Change/Future
  • Speaking on Change
  • Training on Change
    
    
• Erik Jensen, consultant, Jensen Learning - Brain Based Learning
  • Jensen Learning.Com
  • SuperCamp for Teens
  • Brain-compatible resources

• Armando LaGuardia, Washington State University - Achievement Gap
  • Profile
  • Teaching to the Rainbow
    
    
• Randall B. Lindsey, Interim Dean, California Lutheran University; Associate, The Robins Group - Cultural Proficiency
  • Profile
  • The Culturally Proficient School: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders
    
    
• Bob Marzano, Marzano and Associates - Effective Teaching, School Improvement
  • What Works in Schools
  • What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action [downloadable pdf]

• Pedro Noguera, Harvard Graduate School of Education - Achievement Gap
  • Profile
  • Achievement Gap
    
    
• Ruby Payne, consultant - Education, Poverty, Diversity, Cultural Intelligence
• Profile
• aha! Process - mission: positively impact education and lives of individual in poverty
  
  
• Eleanor Renee Rodriguez, consultant - Student Achievement, Diversity
  • What is it about me you can't teach?
    
    
• Kikanza Nuri Robins, The Robins Group - Leadership, Change and Spirituality, Cultural Proficiency
• Profile
• Cultural Competence
  

• Charles Stallard, Center for Smart School Development - Technology
  • Smart Schools Interview
  • Systems Change

• Beverly Tatum, Spelman College President - Diversity
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and other conversations about race
• Can We Talk About Race? and other conversations in an era of school resegregation

• Tim Waters, McREL, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning - Leadership
  • Profile
• Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us about the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement