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Heather Carter
Heather Carter is the current secondary instructional support specialist for the Bartow County School System in Georgia. She specializes in cultivating and sustaining a PLC culture by providing support to teacher collaborative teams, leadership teams, and district stakeholders.
Heather Carter
Heather Carter is the secondary instructional support specialist for the Bartow County School System in Georgia. She specializes in cultivating and sustaining a PLC culture by providing support to teacher collaborative teams, leadership teams, and district stakeholders. In her current role, she has led many professional learning sessions centered around the needs of individual teams and leaders, and her hands-on experience within her own system brings real-world examples to support the learning of others. In 2021, the Bartow County School System was recognized as a Model PLC at Work® district. Through this journey to model status, Heather has played a role in all aspects of the PLC culture shift, from a focus on learning to collaboration and a results orientation, which can be seen in the BCSS PLC Playbook.
Heather graduated with a bachelor’s degree in animal science and a master’s degree in the art of teaching. Her educational certifications include coaching, gifted, 6–12 broad field science, and Tier I leadership. She was named the 2017 Georgia Science Teachers Association Middle School Teacher of the Year and was awarded the Maitland P. Simmons Memorial Award by the National Science Teaching Association in 2016.
PLC at Work®
PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.
Presentations by Heather Carter
- Coaching and Leading Professional Learning Communities
- Building Collaborative A-Teams through Leadership Feedback
- Planning for Rigor and Relevance Using Learning Progressions
- Student-Centered Learning through Success Criteria and Feedback
- Instructionally Supporting STEM and 21st Century Skills
- Modeling Rigorous Collaboration in Teams
- Ensuring Clarity of the Teaching and Assessing Cycle through Simulation
- Aligning Effective Tier 1 Instruction to Common Assessments
- Organizing Data Digs to Support Leadership Perception over Perspective
- A Results-Oriented Focus: Assessment, Student Investment, and Grading
