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Areas of Specialization

Urban School Leadership

Effective Teaching Models, including Arts Integration

Interdisciplinary Program Development

Reading Instruction

Current Projects

Urban Leadership Academy: Developing leadership capacity in the Baltimore City Public School System
Urban Teaching Certificate
Neuroscience-Education Roundtable Series

Faculty CV

Research Interests

Techniques for teaching reading to adolescents with delayed reading skills

The effectiveness of leadership mentoring

Applying findings of neurosciences to how children think and learn

Education

B.A., Loyola College
M.Ed., Loyola College
Ed.D., Johns Hopkins University

Job Experiences:

Teacher and Professional Development Program Assistant, Houston Woods Junior-Senior High School; Herring Run Middle School; Office of Human Resources Development, Baltimore City Public Schools

Department Chair, Chinquapin Middle School, Baltimore City Public Schools

Assistant Principal, Chinquapin Middle School, Baltimore City Public Schools

Principal, Sharp-Leadenhall Elementary School, Baltimore City Public Schools

Principal, Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore City Public Schools

Publications:

Connecting Brain-Research with Effective Teaching: The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model. Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2003.

"Connecting Brain Research with Dimensions of Learning" Educational Leadership, November, 2001

"The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model: A Comprehensive Model for Classroom Instruction and School Reform" In The Praeger Handbook of Learning and the Brain. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006.

Articles for Baltimore's Child Magazine on topics related to child development.

Selected Invited Conference Presentations:

"Emotions and Learning" The Learning & The Brain Conference, Cambridge, MA-November, 2008.

"Correlates of Effective Teaching at the High School Level" Professional development delivered to teachers at Polytechnic High School, Western High School, and Reginald Lewis High School in Baltimore City-February, 2008.

"Connecting Brain Research with Principles of Montessori Education" Annual Conference of the American Montessori Association, New York, NY-March, 2007

"Strategies for Supervision and Curriculum Development through Effective Teaching Model" Maryland Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Towson, MD--May, 2006.

"Instructional Leadership in Action: Monitoring the Alignment of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment" Maryland Instructional Leadership Institute, Columbia, MD--July, 2006.

"Effective Teaching Through the Six Developmental Pathways and Brain-Targeted Teaching" The Learning & the Brain Conference, Cambridge, MA--May, 2006

"Effective Teaching Through the Six Developmental Pathways and Brain-Targeted Teaching" Yale University Comer Child Development Program--January, 2006.

"Closing the Achievement Gap" Symposium of Success Sponsored by Stamford Achieves, City of Stamford, CT--February, 2005.

"Instructional Strategies that Work" Presentation to the faculty of Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, PA--February, 2005.

"Brain Research and Learning: The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model"; Learning and the Brain National Conference, Cambridge, MA--April and November 2004.

"Connecting Brain Research with Effective Instruction" Spring Leadership Conference, Bucks County, PA--March, 2004.

"Educational Environments and Learning"; Northeast Region of the Council of Educational Facility Planners--April, 2003.

"Schoolhouse Dialogue" Maryland State Principals' Academy, Maryland State Department of Education--March, 2003.

"The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model" Maryland Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development--March, 2003.

"Connecting Brain Research with Dimensions of Learning" National Council of Educational Administrative & Supervisory Organizations: Fall Invitational Leadership Conference--November, 2002.

"Remedial and Strategic Reading for Middle School Students" ; Baltimore City Public School System Principal Symposium--August, 2002.

"Brain Research and Learning: Making the Connection" Maryland State Department of Education: Fifth Annual Conference Addressing the Reduction of Disproportional Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education--March, 2002.

"Creativity and Learning" The Learning & The Brain Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2009

Selected Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

The Council of Educational Facility Planners International: Service Citation Award, 2003.

U. S. Department of Education Dissertation Study Grant, 2002

Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, 1998

Maryland School Performance Award, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

Honoree: Maryland Women for Responsive Government, Inc., May 2006

Designee: "Urban Hero" Urbanite Magazine, October, 2000

Designee: "Best Public School Principal" The City Paper, September, 2001

Teacher and Administrator Certification

Maryland State Department of Education Advanced Professional Certification: Principal and Supervisor; French 7-12; Special Education K-12.