EDUCATOR-CENTERED INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING - Key Persons

Amy C. Morton has served in local, state and national education roles over the past 36 years. She is currently the Pennsylvania State Coordinator for the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) and serves one of their national facilitators for programs that engage school leaders in strategic thinking and system design to achieve equity and excellence for all students. Amy spent several years working for the PA Department of Education, including Executive Deputy Secretary (Chief of Staff) under Governor Corbett, Secretary for K-12 Education under Governor Rendell, and Bureau Director for Curriculum under Governor Ridge. Amy led the Capital Area Intermediate Unit as Executive Director after serving as Curriculum Specialist, Director of Education Services and Assistant Executive Director. Her career began as a high school social studies teacher after graduating from Dickinson College in Carlisle. She earned her M.S.Ed. from McDaniel College and her Letter of Eligibility from Shippensburg University. Amy has taught as an adjunct professor for Penn State York, York College, Wilkes University and Wilson College. She currently serves on the Board of Managers for Glen Mills School and is the recipient of numerous leadership awards from Pennsylvania professional associations.

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• Director of Educational Services at Capital Area Intermediate Unit

Brian Griffith is the Director of Educational Services at Capital Area Intermediate Unit near Harrisburg, PA. In this capacity he leads a team of approximately 70 educators who provide services related to School Improvement, Strategic Planning, Curriculum, Professional Development, Online Learning, English as a Second Language (ESL) and Services to Non-Public Schools. With more than 30 years in the field of education, Brian's career has included positions such as Mathematics Teacher, Supervisor of Mathematics K-12, Supervisor of Secondary Curriculum and Technology, and Curriculum Specialist. He has also served as an adjunct instructor for Wilson College and Wilkes University. Brian has received several honors including national recognition as recipient of the "Future Leader Award" from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), regionally as the "Outstanding Middle School Teacher" by the Council for Public Education, and locally as "Outstanding Professional Employee" by Mechanicsburg Area School District. More recently, he was recognized as "Champion of Arts Education" by the Capital Area School for the Arts Charter School. In addition to his role on the board of TPIIC, Brian serves on the Community Advisory Board of PBS station WITF, board member of Meeting Professionals International Middle PA, and board member of Capital Area School for the Arts Charter School.

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• Associate Director of the Professional Institute for Instructional Coaching

Bruce P. Eisenberg is the Associate Director of The Professional Institute for Instructional Coaching (TPIIC), a nonprofit established to continue his work with instructional coaches, instructional mentors, and administrators nationally and internationally. His work revolves around helping school districts implement an effective instructional coaching model designed around the before, during, and after (BDA) cycle of consultation and the 4-quadrant framework of effective core coaching elements. He is also the co-creator /co-facilitator of the PIIC Act 45 Continuing Education course entitled: Implementing Instructional Coaching Within a School Improvement Framework to Make Professional Development More Effective. His career has spanned fifty years in public education. The first thirty-two years were spent teaching mathematics in a public high school for the School District of Philadelphia. For twenty-five of those years, he was also the coordinator of all Magnet Programs. Those programs were open to eligible students from across the city who were academically, musically and artistically talented. He designed and implemented curriculum for each program and monitored student achievement at all grade levels. As coordinator, he met regularly with students and teachers to identify student needs and measure student progress. Shortly after his retirement from the School District of Philadelphia in 1999, Mr. Eisenberg became a consultant to the Johns Hopkins University's Talent Development High School model under the direction of the Center for Social Organization of Schools. His major focus was to facilitate the restructuring of low performing high schools around the country. He provided professional development in several districts including the Bensalem SD, Greater Johnstown SD, and the School District of Hawaii. From 2006- 2009, Eisenberg was the Associate Director of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI), a partnership between the Annenberg Foundation and the Pennsylvania Department of Education where his major focus was outreach and advocacy to the legislative and executive branches of local, state, and federal elected officials. He met regularly with representatives, sharing data about improved student achievement and ongoing teacher professional development. Eisenberg continued supporting schools and districts in the implementation of the PIIC instructional coaching and mentoring model through the 29 Intermediate Units across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, New Jersey school districts, Minnesota, Michigan, and most recently South Africa, where he worked with officials from the Ministry of Education and other government approved consultants to plan an instructional coaching and mentoring system designed to help teachers and administrators at TVET colleges, a post high school program of instruction. Mr. Eisenberg believes that guiding policy makers, i.e., legislators, governors, secretaries of education, and ministers of education, in implementing support systems for school leaders and teachers will help all students develop into life-long learners and productive citizens in the communities where they live.

Dr. Amy Walker has been an educator for 36 years. Following 26 years of teaching…

Dr. Randall A. Grove has been in education for over 33 years. After teaching music education for 13 years, he transitioned into administration. He has served as a Dean of Students, Assistant Principal, Principal, and Assistant Superintendent for the Eastern Lebanon County (ELCO) School District. He is currently in his 8th year as the Superintendent of the Conrad Weiser Area School District (CWASD). Dr. Grove has taught in the Masters of Education programs at Alvernia University and Albright College. He is also a certified trainer in the Learning Focused Strategies model. Dr. Grove introduced instructional coaching to the ELCO School District in 2010. Currently, the CWASD has thirteen teachers who serve as full-time or part-time instructional coaches. This group of coaches works with their local coaching mentor from the Berks County Intermediate Unit #14 and they have also started their own district-wide group called the Conrad Weiser Coaching Collaborative. This group supports teachers with coaching in the areas of classroom instruction, technology integration, and gifted education. Dr. Grove has served on the Collaborative Coaching Board at the Pennsylvania Department of Education and was recently asked to serve on the steering committee of the newly formed Science Research Institute (SRI) at the Conrad Weiser High School. Dr. Grove has attended various local, state and regional educational conferences to present workshops on the Hybrid Learning rotational model. He was also a featured speaker at the 2016 annual winter PIIC Conference in State College, PA.

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• Executive Director of the Professional Institute for Instructional Coaching

Ellen Eisenberg is the Executive Director of The Professional Institute for Instructional Coaching (TPIIC), a nonprofit established to continue her work with instructional coaches and instructional mentors nationally and internationally. Her work involves helping school districts plan an effective instructional coaching model built on the before, during, and after (BDA) cycle of consultation and the 4-quadrant framework of effective core coaching elements. Eisenberg believes that she can make a difference in the lives of our youth and help all students and staff become members in a community of learning and practice. Ellen Eisenberg has spent her entire professional career in the field of public education teaching English and reading in grades 7th through 12th, all levels from At-risk to Advanced Placement. As a Department Head of English in the School District of Philadelphia, she was responsible for monitoring and supervising curriculum and instruction. She chaired several Middle States committees and was a member of the School District of Philadelphia's curriculum writing team. Her experience covers a thirty-five-year career in one school district. From 2000 to 2005, Eisenberg worked with Talent Development High School, a whole school reform model designed by Johns Hopkins University. In Philadelphia, she worked as the lead literacy curriculum coach and subsequently became the Director of the high school program in seven Philadelphia high schools. She has also served as Instructional Facilitator for the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University facilitating professional development workshops on curriculum and instruction in Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans and Hawaii and has also presented at several Talent Development High School national conferences in Baltimore. Eisenberg was the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI) from 2005-2009. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, it was the nation's only multi-tiered teacher coaching initiative - providing trained teacher-leaders, called coaches, to high schools across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. From 2009 - 2018, Eisenberg was the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC). Supported by the Annenberg Foundation and working in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, PIIC built on the work of PAHSCI as a statewide resource for developing and supporting the delivery of consistent, high-quality professional development around instructional coaching and mentoring in Pennsylvania schools as well as districts in Ohio, New Jersey, Minnesota, Michigan, and international work consulting with the Bermuda Ministry of Education and in South Africa where she worked with the South African Ministry of Education to plan an instructional coaching model designed for TVET colleges, a post high school program of instruction.

Kathleen Eich has been an educator for 38 years. After teaching students who are deaf…

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• Director for Government Affairs at Thomas Jefferson University

Rob Skomorucha is a Director for Government Affairs at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In that role, he monitors and reports on government activities related to higher education and works to strengthen the university through various initiatives and projects.

Robert Marmon specialized in the turnaround of troubled companies and assets, managing them to create or restore value when he was working for McKinsey and Company, Palmeri, Inc., and RFP, Inc. With his background, he has been involved in financial services, real estate development and disposition, major hotel operations, consumer electronics, banking, insurance, and R & D. Mr. Marmon has extensive experience in analysis, capital needs and structure, planning, management reporting, investment strategies and Chapter 11 proceedings, working closely with counsel, committees, and the court. He gives "back" to the community as a chairman of an educational non-profit to help troubled children in Washington, D.C, and as a pilot flying "Mercy Flights" for those with medical emergencies across the United States.

Virginia Glatzer mentors education leaders on how to move from thinking about classrooms for the future to creating classrooms for today. She helps education leaders and teachers realize how collaboration, creativity, and differentiated instruction can be effectively used for teaching and learning. She offers experience as a leader in statewide secondary education initiatives, as an elementary classroom teacher, and as an adult learning professional. In addition to coaching teachers in the effective use of instructional technology, she is the Director of Educational Leadership at Jewish Learning Venture and has been a Regional Mentor Coordinator with the PA Institute for Instructional Coaching, and a mentor for the PA Department of Education's Classrooms for the Future. Virginia facilitates a learning community for future principals through the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit. Her consulting practice has included being a Penn Literacy Network Facilitator, an Apple Professional Development Consultant, Microsoft Innovative Educator Master Trainer and Expert, and a Windows in the Classroom Advisor.