Coaching Teachers and Leaders for Equity & Excellence

School reform is often thought of in terms of school and district initiatives.  Our guest this month, Gene Thompson-Grove, will discuss how her career working with teachers and leaders to inact change at the classroom level in schools and district has made a difference.   She will also discuss the challenges to this work in the way schools are currently configured and operate.Gene Thompson-Grove’s work focuses on building the capacity for transformational learning. She has 35 years of experience leading seminars on creating professional learning communities, coaching collaborative learning groups, examining student work collaboratively, developing facilitative leadership skills, and designing and facilitating adult learning experiences. She is a founding Board member of the School Reform Initiative (SRI).  Ms. Thompson-Grove began her career in Watertown MA as a high school and middle school English teacher.  She has a B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Boston College and received her M.Ed from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Join us for what will be a great discussion.