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Marie Alcock is a consultant specializing in the areas of curriculum, instruction, and assessment design. She has spent the last 20 years working in public and private education as a teacher, administrator, and public advocate.

Tammy Heflebower, EdD, is a highly sought-after school leader and presenter with vast experience in urban, rural, and suburban districts throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, and the Netherlands.

Paul Cancellieri is a science teacher in North Carolina with 23 years of experience both in the classroom and working with teachers to enhance learning with technology and research-based practices.

Robert Lynn Canady, EdD, is a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He has taught grades 6–12 and served as principal of elementary, middle, and junior high schools.

Carol E. Canady is a literacy advisor with various school districts across the eastern United States. Her passion is to help educators reduce student failure by institutionalizing practices that accelerate reading achievement.

Andrew Churches is a teacher, head of faculty, and information and communications technology enthusiast. He teaches at Kristin School in Auckland, New Zealand, which has a comprehensive technology program for all students.

Join Becky Evers-Gerdes and Stephanie Larsen of Piedmont Elementary School in Duluth, Minnesota, to discover how the school's staff built a culture of collaboration that increased individual student growth in a Title 1 school.

Discover how to seamlessly integrate the Common Core State Standards into your curriculum

Join an all-star lineup of assessment and grading experts and master practitioners, and get ready to turbocharge learning. Teachers will learn how to spark a growth mindset in students, avoid the most common mistakes in assessment design and analysis, and collaborate in teams to identify specific learning issues for targeted instructional solutions. Leaders will learn how to design structures, protocols, and schedules that empower collaborative teacher teams to develop, score, analyze, and respond to assessment.

Bridget Cahill was a middle school teacher in Westminster Public Schools in Boulder, Colorado, before becoming a leader at the district level. There, she planned and implemented competency-based instruction in science, literacy, and English language development.