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 William
Banach
Bill Banach is CEO of Banach, Banach & Cassidy, a Michigan-based
market forecasting and communication research firm. His job is to think
about the implications of change, and to help educational leaders and corporate
executives capitalize on the marketplace opportunities that change presents.
Bill is nationally recognized for his issues management and social forecasting
programs, and is considered “the godfather” of educational
marketing. In fact, his pioneering marketing program was named “the
best total communication program in America.”
Bill created The Institute for Future Studies, and directs two non-profit
think tanks, The Center for the Study of the Superintendency and The Strategy
Center.
Bill is a past president of the National School Public Relations Association
(NSPRA), a three-time winner of the Association’s coveted Gold
Medallion Award for excellence in communication, and recipient of NSPRA’s
President’s Award, the highest honor of the educational communication
profession.
Bill authored The ABC Series, four books focused on educational planning
and marketing. Bill’s articles have appeared in over 100 journals
and magazines, and he’s served as the host of America’s
Learning, a weekly on-hour program on National Public Radio.
Executive Educator magazine named Bill to its charter list of “North
America’s Top 100 School Executives,” and his colleagues
consistently rank him among the nation’s most respected communication
professionals.
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 Anthony
F. Bisciglia
Dr. Anthony F. Bisciglia is an educator with a wealth of
experience at all educational levels. He has served as a classroom teacher
and principal at both the elementary and secondary levels, as a Superintendent
of Schools, and as a guest lecturer at a variety of colleges and universities.
Currently, Dr. Bisciglia serves as the editor of The Effective School Report,
a publication started in 1983 by many pioneers in the effective schools
movement.
Dr. Bisciglia is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison,
Marquette University and Nova Southeastern University. He has a bachelor
degree in History, a masters in guidance and counseling and a doctoral
degree in Educational leadership. In addition to his academic work, Dr.
Bisciglia has been recognized by numerous community and civic organizations
for his services. He studied the Australian Educational System for Rotary
International and is a "Paul Harris" fellow of Rotary. The Boy
and Girl Scouts, NAACP, Urban League, and United Way have honored him
for his efforts.
Under his stewardship, The Effective School Report continues to provide
quality educational information relating to building effective schools.
Robert Anderson, editor of Wingspan, writes in the March, 2001 issue about
The Effective School Report, "Not quite a journal, not quite a newsletter,
this Report is a good bit of each and is, in our view, an almost indispensable
resource for school people." He continues, "It seems that every
school should receive at least one copy for its 'teachers' workroom."
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 Gordon
Cawelti
Dr. Cawelti has served since 1992 as Senior Research
Associate for the Educational Research Service in Arlington, Virginia,
where he is conducting research on various approaches to improving student
achievement. He also serves as Director of The ACHIEVEMENT CONSORTIUM
which is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Lab in Philadelphia.
He resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Dr. Cawelti received his Ph.D. from the University of
Iowa, served as a science teacher and a principal in two high schools,
and as Executive Director of the North Central Association in Chicago.
From 1969-1973 he served as superintendent of the 80,000 student Tulsa
Public Schools where he was involved in developing several innovative
schools, undertook an extensive school construction program, and provided
leadership in the school desegregation process which eliminated all racially
isolated schools.
In Washington he served for 19 years as Executive Director
of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. During
this time, ASCD grew from 12,000 to 155,000 members, established affiliates
in all 50 states and in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom,
Singapore, Japan, Canada, and in the Caribbean. ASCD became a leader in
professional development activity by providing workshops around the world
each year and producing videotapes used extensively for training purposes.
He directed several consortia of schools engaged in the process of planning
for the future.
He has published over 150 articles and books on school
leadership and curriculum including a 1965 study of innovations in some
6000 high schools. He completed a major research project in 1994 on the
elements of restructuring being undertaken by the nation's high schools
and more recently published Effects of High School Restructuring: Ten
Schools at Work which identified the changes that contribute most to improved
student achievement.
He was editor of the Handbook of Research on Improving
Student Achievement, a project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation
and sponsored by the ERS. This best selling handbook is now being used
by thousands of teachers across the country to learn about using research-based
teaching practices in their field. In 1999 he published Portraits of Six
Benchmark Schools which was a study of six schools serving students from
low-income families that are attaining high levels of achievement. More
recent research has focused on high performing school districts whose
substantial gains in student achievement were reported in High Student
Achievement: How Six School Districts Changed Into High Performance Systems.
The findings in this study are now being used in a consortium of districts
attempting to replicate the findings in a project sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic
Regional Laboratory.
He has served as a management consultant to many schools
districts in the areas of instructional leadership, school restructuring,
and improving student achievement, and has provided training in several
countries in the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East.
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 Janet
Chrispeels
Dr. Janet H. Chrispeels is an associate professor in the
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (UCSB). She coordinates the certification
and leadership development programs for school administrators and teaches
doctoral students in the Educational Leadership and Organizations emphasis.
She serves on the Gevirtz Leadership Council, which is developing a new
leadership initiative for UCSB. Her research interests are school change
and restructuring, school-home collaboration, and professional development.
She is author of Purposeful Restructuring: Creating a Climate of Learning
and Achievement in Elementary Schools, (Falmer Press, 1992).
Janet’s current research involves a longitudinal study of California
School Leadership Teams (SLT), a state sponsored school restructuring
program. She also recently conducted a study of the Parent Institute for
Quality Education in Oxnard California, to understand how the program
impacts parents and their children to engage with their children’s
education. Results are appearing in the Spring issue of Peabody Journal
of Education.
She is president of the Board directors of National Center for Effective
Schools Research and Development Foundation and is past president of the
International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement
and serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal for School
Effectiveness and Improvement and the Leadership and Policy in Schools
Journal. She has served on state and national committees on parent involvement
and as a consultant to state departments of education and the US Department
of Defense Overseas Schools.
Prior to coming to UCSB, Dr. Chrispeels with the San Diego County Office
of Education, serving first as Project Director for the Center for Parent/Community
Involvement In Effective Schools, and then as coordinator with the Effective
School Program, High Performance Schools Program, and Project AVID. She
and her colleagues developed one of the first nationally recognized school
effectiveness process. This process was disseminated through the book
and video Building Effective Schools.
Dr. Chrispeels received her doctorate in Educational Leadership from
the University of San Diego in 1990.
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 Ivan
Fitzwater
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 Hal
Guthrie
Hal has been the General Superintendent of the Spring Branch
Independent School District since 1986. With nearly 40 years of experience
in education, he has been superintendent in Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Texas,
a member of the graduate faculty at Temple University, a K-12 principal
and a classroom teacher. He believes that improving student performance
and closing the performance gap is the most critical role of the superintendent.
He designed the Q-7 System for High Performance School Districts that is
grounded in Effective School Research, Baldrige in Education Criteria and
Total Quality Continuous Improvement Principles. Dr. Guthrie presents nationally
on the components of high performing school districts. He was named “Texas
Superintendent of the Year” in 1989 and was selected as one of the
Top 100 Educators in North America in 1990. Dr. Guthrie has served in numerous
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 Edie
Holcomb
Dr. Edie Holcomb has a long association with the Effective
Schools movement. As a principal, she used the knowledge base to make dramatic
improvements in student achievement in her Title I school. When the National
Center for Effective Schools was housed at the University of Wisconsin,
Edie served as Associate Director for Training and Technical Assistance.
She developed a training program for school leadership teams that has been
used in nearly 30 states, Canada, Guam, St. Lucia and Hong Kong. This program
has been updated and is still in use by the National Alliance for Effective
Schools. Edie's dissertation research on the needs of beginning principals
won an award from AASA, and contributed to her own approach to training
principals as an associate professor at Wichita State University.
Edie recently retired from the Seattle school district,
having served first as Director of Standards and Assessment and then as
a regional superintendent supervising 20 schools. She is the author of
numerous articles and three books published by Corwin Press:
Asking the Right Questions: Tools and Techniques for Teamwork,
1996
Getting Excited About Data: How to Combine People, Passion and Proof,
1998
Asking the Right Questions (2nd ed.): Techniques for Collaboration and
School Change, 2001
She consults in the areas of school effectiveness, school
leadership and change, use of data for decision-making and instructional
improvement, team-building and group process skills.
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Larry Lezotte
Dr. Lezotte earned
his doctorate from Michigan State University in 1969, joining the faculty
there that same year. During his 18-year tenure at MSU, he served in various
capacities, including Chair of the Department of Educational Administration;
Associate Director, with Ron Edmonds, of the Center for School Improvement
in the College of Education; and Chair of Urban and Metropolitan Studies
in the College of Urban Affairs. Dr. Lezotte was a member of the original
team of Effective Schools researchers who identified the characteristics
of successful schools that have come to be known as the Correlates of Effective
Schools.
Since that time, Dr. Lezotte has been at the forefront of the Effective
Schools movement. He has written widely on the new mission of public education
and the theories and tools necessary for successful and continuous school
improvement.
As a nationally renowned education consultant
and speaker, Dr. Lezotte has devoted his career to assisting schools in
their efforts to assure that all students learn. He touches the lives of
thousands of educators and tens of thousands of students each year through
workshops and conferences across the U.S. and Canada. Dr. Lezotte’s
training programs not only inspire schools and districts to adopt the “learning
for all” mission, but gives them the information and tools they need
to plan and implement continuous school improvement and raise student achievement.
In recognition of his efforts, Dr. Lezotte received the 2003 Council of
Chief State School Officers’ Distinguished Service Award presented
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 Bill
Owings
Dr. William Owings is a Professor of Educational Leadership
in the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk,
Virginia. Before entering higher education in 1999, he served as an English
teacher in Baltimore County, an elementary and high school principal, an assistant
superintendent, and superintendent of schools in Virginia. He has also been
on the Board of Directors for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD) and has been a past president of Virginia ASCD.
Bill and his wife, Dr. Leslie Kaplan, write frequently about
school finance, teacher and principal quality, and student achievement.
Currently, they are working on a foundations textbook for Thomson/Wadsworth,
their sixth such work together. This will be Bill’s ninth book or
monograph. In addition, he has written more than forty journal articles
(23 with his wife), and presented papers at more than 50 conferences (14
with his wife). They have coauthored two book chapters.
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Dr. Jerry
Mathews
Dr. Jerry G. Mathews is an Associate Professor of Educational
Leadership in the College of Education at Mississippi State University.
He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Mississippi State University in
Educational Leadership with a concentration in K-12 school administration.
His career spans more than thirty years as an educator, having served
as a secondary school teacher of college prep physics, chemistry and biology;
high school principal; and, he served as a graduate research assistant
at Mississippi State. He served as the Coordinator for the Educational
Leadership program area at Auburn University for two years and Chair of
the Graduate School Minor in Sports Management Committee at Auburn University.
He served as a faculty member in Educational Leadership at Idaho State
University for six years. Mathews currently serves as Graduate Coordinator
and Educational Leadership Program Coordinator in the College of Education
at Mississippi State University.
Dr. Mathews has published in areas related to state school
indicators and profiles; the politics of university sports and recreation
programs for students with mobility impairments; gender based perceptions
of the challenges, changes, and essential skills of the principalship;
and, other research based studies. Some of the journals in which he has
published are Research in the Schools, Journal of School Leadership, The
Journal of School Health, Sociology of Sport Journal, Journal of Research
in Education, Journal for Effective Schools Research and the International
Journal of Instructional Media. Dr. Mathews has also presented at numerous
regional and national research conferences. He is on the editorial board
of Research in the Schools and the Journal for Effective Schools Research.
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T. C. Mattock
T. C. “Chris” Mattocks is entering his 43rd year
in public education. He received his bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees
from Montana State University. During his career he taught Physical Education,
Biology, Earth Science, General Science, and Driver Education. As a superintendent
he worked in three different Montana school districts ranging in size from
110 students to 1,050 students. While coaching and being superintendent
in small Montana school districts, driving the school bus was part of his
daily duties.
He then moved to Idaho where he served as superintendent
of the 4,800 student Rexburg, ID school district for two years before
assuming the superintendency of the 11,000 student Idaho Falls School
District. In 1996 Dr. Mattocks was recruited to the position of Assistant
Dean of the College of Education at Idaho State University and was promoted
to tenured Associate Professor in 1999. Mattocks accepted his current
position as superintendent of the 2,600 student Bellingham (MA) School
District in 2002.
Dr. Mattocks and his wife, Cheryl, will
celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary later this week, and they are
the parents of one daughter who works for Yale University and the proud
grandparents of two granddaughters (pictures available upon request!).
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 Deborah
McDonald
Dr. Deborah Halcomb McDonald is Kentucky State Director of
Appalachian Educational Laboratory (AEL) with offices at the University
of Louisville. Her role as State Director is well-matched to her background
as a School Improvement Specialist with the United States Department of
Defense, a Distinguished Educator with the Kentucky Department of Education,
and design team member for the Prichard Committee Commonwealth Institute
for Parent Leadership. Dr. McDonald’s current
responsibilities include strengthening AEL’s relationships with
Kentucky policymakers, education associations and agencies, and business
and community members.
Dr. McDonald’s research interests include shared
leadership, data-driven research and development, and results-focused
school improvement. During her tenure at the Kentucky Department of Education
(KDE) studies that she conducted in the areas of Kentucky Distinguished
Educators, STAR high performance schools, and analysis of school programs
were often feature articles in teacher, administrator, and legislator
publications as well as KDE documents.
Debbie is passionate about comprehensive school improvement
within the parameters of School Effectiveness Research because she has
“lived the results” in a multitude of educational roles.
Additionally, she has shared those experiences as a key presenter in International,
national and state leadership conferences including the National Center
for Education and the Economy International Principals Conference, and
American Education Research Association (AERA), and in the forward of
Edie Holcomb’s Getting Excited About Data.
As a child in the Eastern Kentucky section of Appalachia,
Debbie McDonald observed the life differences afforded by the educational
choices she and her peers made and became dedicated to “narrowing
the gap” for cultural as well as ethnic diversity. While her school-improvement
focus is international, she reports the two greatest honors of her educational
career as being invited to give the keynote address for her home Jackson
County Schools Millennium Commencement and as opening speaker for educational
personnel in 1998.
Debbie spends her recreational time with travel, reading
and working with the Alliance for Effective Schools and their nationally
recognized satellite centers currently under the umbrella of Phi Delta
Kappa. She reports that her dream is to have other educators share her
passion for improving America’s schools.
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 Joseph
Murphy
Joseph Murphy is Professor in the School of Leadership and
Policy in the College of Education at The Ohio State University. He is also
President of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. Prior to moving to
Ohio State, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois
and Professor and Chair of the Department of Leadership and Organizations
at Vanderbilt University. Earlier in his career, he served as a school administrator
at the school, district, and state levels. His most recent experience was
as Executive Assistant to the Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction
in California. He currently chairs the Interstate
School Leaders Licensure Consortium and is a former Vice President of
the American Educational Research Association (Division A, Administration).
He is co-editor (with Karen Seashore Louis) of the 1999 AERA Handbook
of Research on Educational Administration.
In 1986 he won the Jack A. Culverts research award from
the University Council of Educational Administration. In 1998 he received
the Professional Service Award For Outstanding Contribution In Relating
Research To Practice from the American Educational Research Association.
He has been recognized for writing the outstanding article in the Journal
of Vocational Education Research in 1987 (with Linda S. Lotto) and in
The Journal of Educational Administration in 1995 (with Philip Hallinger).
Dr. Murphy's primary interest is in school improvement,
with emphases in the areas of policy and leadership. He also works in
the area of leadership preparation and training. He has written twelve
books in these areas and edited another eight. In addition to having presented
over 100 papers at national and international conferences, Dr. Murphy
has written more than 150 book chapters and articles for leading refereed
academic journals and professional outlets.
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 Steven
Nelson
I was born in Battle Ground, Washington, in 1948. Battle
Ground is a rural area of southwest Washington where my family settled in
1876. I attended Clark Community College for two years where I focused on
the biological and social sciences. With an Associate of Arts degree with
honors, I continued my education at Western Washington University where
I received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1970. With
an interest in social action research, I accepted a research assistant
position at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) in November
of 1970. There I had the opportunity to begin applying my skills and interest
in the Research and Evaluation Division. In 1972 and 1973, I held an internship
in educational program evaluation at The Ohio State University. Working
half-time as a graduate research associate at the National Center for
Vocational Education, I completed a Master of Arts in education in December
1972 and my residency for the doctoral program. I returned to NWREL in
September 1973 as a research associate. I completed the Ph.D. program
in 1975, with an emphasis on educational program evaluation.
Between 1973 and 1987, my sole responsibility was to conduct
third-party evaluations of a wide range of federal, state, and local educational
programs across the five Northwest states. In 1985, I wrote an evaluation
guide for the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion which
was published by the National Center for Health Education.
In 1987 I was appointed to direct the Rural Education
Program at NWREL. This provided the opportunity to develop broader professional
perspectives and relationships--to work more closely with other Laboratories,
the government, and associations at the national level, along with state
and local practitioners, service providers, and policy makers.
In 1998, I was appointed to direct NWREL's Office of Planning
and Program Development and serve on the institution's executive cabinet.
This has brought new challenges and opportunities in creating regional
and national partnerships with organizations to use R&D to better
inform educational policy.
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John Pisapia
John Pisapia joined
the faculty at Florida Atlantic University as Professor and Chairman of
the Department of Education Leadership on January 1, 1998. Prior to this
appointment, he served a teacher, principal, professor of educational
adminstration, assistant state superintendent and state superintendent
of schools. His current interests are policy issues, leadership development
and technology transfer.
At Virginia Commonwealth
University, Dr. Pisapia served as Chairman of the Department of Educational
Studies and Founding Director of the Metropolitan Educational Research
Consortium (MERC) a joint venture between the University and surrounding
school districts. Since 1992, MERC published 33 major reseach reports
on such topics as technology infusion, block scheduling, building resiliency
in at-risk students, parent involvement, and language arts and mathematics
instruction. As a result, the Consortium received state, national and
federal acclaim as an exemplary model of school/university collaboration.
Prior to his Virginia
Coomonwealth assignment, John Pisapia served as West Virginia's chief
state school officer. During his tenure with the Department of Education,
Dr. Pisapia established a common core of learning and instituted a system
of public accountability. He also launched a system of satellite delivered
instruction and nationally recognized Principal and Teacher Academies.
Nationally, he chaired the Chief State School Officers' committee which
produced a blueprint for national assessment of educational progress (NAEP)
currently being implemented.
John Pisapia has
been recognized as the American Assoication of School Administrator's
(AASA) first Professor of the Year (1980), for Outstanding Leadership
in Education by Phi Delta Kappa (1983), as a Fulbright Scholar (1986),
and for Significant Leadership in Public and Higher Education by the West
Virginia University Alumni Association (1989).
Pisapia's forthcoming
book: Educational Administration: Foundations and Futures is
being published by Prentice-Hall. His articles have appeared in Phi
Delta Kappa, Journal of Law and Education, Government Union Review, Journal
of Collective Bargaining, NASSP Bulletin and Nolpe School Law
Journal.
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 John
Steffens
John holds a Ph.D. in General Administration from the
University of Oklahoma and currently serves as Executive Director of the
College of Continuing Education, Public Service Institute and the Region
VII Comprehensive Center at the University of Oklahoma. His background
incorporates a broad spectrum of educational experiences, including school
teaching and administration; development of a broad variety of human and
social service programs; the evaluation of social service programs; and
the organizational analysis of schools and social service organizations.
He has served as special consultant to the Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Advisory Council
on Equal Educational Opportunity, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Institute
of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy, Defense and Labor, the Urban
League, the U.S. Air Force, the Organization of American States and a
host of other state, local and community agencies, departments and programs,
nationally and internationally.
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 Bob
Sudlow
Until his retirement in 1991 Dr. Robert E. Sudlow was Assistant
Superintendent for Instruction for the Spencerport, New York Central Schools
where he served as Director of the More Effective Schools/Teaching Project
from its inception in 1982-83. The Project’s consultants were Ronald
Edmonds and Larry Lezotte. It was the first district wide effective schools
project in the nation. There was significant improvement in student achievement
at all levels and significant improvement in the instructional climate in
each school as a result of the Project. Spencerport’s
More Effective Schools/Teaching Project received a number of honors. It
is validated for inclusion in the National Diffusion Network, United Stated
Department of Education. NDN validation is the most rigorous form of external
evaluation of an innovation that exists in the nation. The More Effective
Schools/Teaching Project is the only effective schools project in the
nation validated by NDN. It is validated for inclusion in the Sharing
Success Program, New York State Education Department. It is reported on
in several major books and in a Congressional document.
Since 1986 Dr. Sudlow has worked with numerous school
systems to help them implement the effective schools process. In 1999
he was a distinguished Lecturer at Phi Delta Kappa’s International
Effective Schools Conference. He is a contributing author to the Effective
Schools Research Abstracts and is a former member of the Editorial Board
of the Effective School Report.
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 M.
Donald Thomas
M. Donald Thomas is a former superintendent of the Salt Lake
City school district (1973-84) and former deputy superintendent for public
accountability for the state of South Carolina (1984-87). He has served
as a consultant to governors in South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
He is the recipient of the NAACP Civil Rights Worker of the Year Award,
the American Association of School Administrators' distinguished service
award, and the Don Quixote Award for services to special needs children.
Thomas currently serves as a national lecturer for Nova
Southeastern University, as President Emeritus of School Management Study
Group, and as director of the Network for Effective Schools. He is the
co-author of five fastbacks, including 426 Legal and Ethical Bases
for Educational Leadership.
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 Larry
Vandel
An Effective Schools Practitioner since 1985 Mr. Vandel has
served as an administrator at building and district level. He has implemented
the Effective Schools improvement process at all levels and has been successful
in raising academic standards, student performance, and student test scores.
Mr. Vandel has assisted other school districts in implementing the Effective
School process by serving as an advisor and consultant. His current position
is Superintendent of Schools, Jefferson County School District, Rigby, Idaho
where he has implemented Effective Schools and enjoyed many successes.
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