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John D’Auria

is the former Superintendent of the Canton Public Schools and was a middle school principal for twenty-three years.  In a career that has spanned many other roles, Dr. D’Auria has worked with hundreds of school leaders around developing a vibrant school culture, managing conflict in the workplace, and sharpening the academic focus of school teams.  Together with numerous journal articles, he is the author of Ten Lessons in Leadership and Learning (2010) and coauthor, with Jon Saphier, of How to Bring Vision to School Improvement (1993).  He is a frequent presenter at educational conferences and is currently the President of Teachers²¹.

Emily Parks

is currently the Principal of Westwood High School. A former assistant principal, Ms. Parks is a standout in the leadership of instruction, curriculum development, and assessment. While heading up Westwood High School, Ms. Parks has also taught undergraduate and graduate teacher education students in the MIT/Wellesley STEP Program and serves as an adjunct professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She has been a Senior Consultant to the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program and developed There’s Got to Be a Better Way: A Practical Approach to Classroom Management for the TEC Collaborative and its partner school districts.  She consults for Teachers²¹ on program evaluation, behavior management, teacher support teams, school culture, and assessment.

Gail Donovan

is a former Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services for several Bay Area school districts that were affiliated with the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC) and also served as Director of Accountability and Evaluation Systems for the San Francisco Unified School District.   Before joining Teachers²¹ this year, she was affiliated with New Visions for Public Schools, Chancellor Joe Klein’s nonprofit organizational partner for school reform in New York City.  At New Visions, Dr. Donovan managed a portfolio of secondary and elementary schools, developing with each school’s principal and leadership team a strategic plan for improving student achievement, organizing the collaborative work for the year around key objectives and progress indicators, and refining the plan each term on the basis of student performance outcomes.

Denise Bell

is Director of the Office of Assessment and Research at Holy Cross College.  Dr. Bell also serves as a consultant to Teachers²¹ on its school partnership efforts to close the achievement gap and improve teaching and learning.  Her research and evaluation work spans organizations across the country, including the Education Alliance at Brown University, the Johns Hopkins University/MESA Schools Program STEM initiative, the Massachusetts and California State Departments of Education, the Providence Public Schools, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.