Laura
Lipton, Ed.D.
Laura Lipton,
Ed.D is Co-Director of MiraVia, LLC. Laura is an international
consultant whose writing, research and seminars focus on effective
and innovative instructional practices and on building professional
and organizational capacities for enhanced learning. Laura
engages with schools and school districts, designing and conducting
workshops on learning-focused instruction, literacy development
and strategies to support beginning teachers. She facilitates
organizational adaptivity and learning through training and
development in data-driven dialogue, shared leadership, action
research, and learning-focused collaborations.
Laura is author and co-author of numerous publications related
to organizational and professional development, learning-focused
schools and literacy development.
Her recent publications
include:
Bruce
Wellman, M.Ed.
Bruce Wellman
is co-director of MiraVia, LLC.. He consults and presents
for school systems, professional groups and publishers throughout
the United States and Canada, presenting workshops and courses
for teachers and administrators on interactive/ collaborative
instruction, thinking skills development, learning-focused
conversations for supervisors and mentors, presentation skills
and facilitating collaborative groups.
Recent publications
include:
Mr. Wellman has
served as a classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator, and
staff developer in the Oberlin, Ohio and Concord, Massachusetts
public schools. He holds a B.A. degree from Antioch College
and a M.Ed. from Lesley College.
Peggy Olcott, M.Ed
Peggy Olcott is an independent consultant with over 20 years experience in education ranging from elementary and middle school teaching to district level coordination of curriculum and instructional programs. For the past eleven years, Peggy provided leadership for professional development initiatives at both the district and state levels including organizing and supervising the new staff support programs in several districts. Currently, Peggy presents workshops and seminars in the areas of mentoring, curriculum articulation, thinking skills, and reading and writing strategies.
Peggy holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.Ed. from City University in curriculum and instruction. She also has completed an administrative licensure program at Portland State University.
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Lynn Sawyer, M.Ed.
Lynn Sawyer is an international educational consultant, presenting workshops and seminars on learning-focused conversations for mentoring and supervision, facilitating collaborative groups, and data-driven dialogue.
In her 30 years as an educator, Lynn Sawyer has been a high school teacher, curriculum specialist, and professional developer. As an administrator of a regional professional development agency, she trained a staff of professional development providers and conducted workshops and seminars. She led a district wide implementation of a teacher evaluation system focusing on a coaching model to support teacher self-directedness.
Her publications include:
“Revamping a Teacher Evaluation System,” Educational Leadership, Feb 2001
“Integrating Cognitive Coaching with a Framework for Teaching,” a chapter in Cognitive Coaching: Weaving Threads of Learning and Change into the Culture of an Organization, (Christopher-Gordon).
Lynn earned her B.A. and M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Administration, from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Barbara Lawson, M.Ed.
Barbara Lawson is an international consultant, presenting workshops and seminars in learning-focused conversations for mentors, teacher leaders and instructional supervisors. Most recently, Barbara has served as the Instructional Specialist for the Washington Education Association. Her 35 years of educational experience includes teaching in a rural K-8 school, a suburban junior high school and urban high school as well as at the university level.
As a staff development director, she developed a mentoring and coaching program for both beginning and experienced teachers, as well as demonstration sites for instruction and assessment practices for a standards-driven system. As Director of Program Development for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, she guided policy and created programs to support teachers in education reform for Washington State.
Barbara has conducted workshops for para-educators, teachers and administrators in a variety of areas including leadership, decision-making, curriculum, instruction, assessment, classroom management, and partnership conferencing.
Barbara holds a B.A. Ed. from Western Washington University and M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Puget Sound.
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