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Kendra Bell
Kendra Bell, PhD, serves as the chief academic support officer for Peoria Unified School District in Arizona. Throughout her career, Dr. Bell has emphasized the importance of continual improvement through professional learning communities.
Kendra Bell
Kendra Bell, PhD, serves as the chief academic support officer for Peoria Unified School District in Arizona. Throughout her career, Dr. Bell has emphasized the importance of continual improvement through professional learning communities.
Previously, Dr. Bell served as an associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction for North Kansas City Schools in Missouri. An experienced educator, Dr. Bell has taught in elementary, middle, and high schools. She has been a principal, director of assessment, director of school improvement and accountability, and principal coach in priority schools, as well as an instructor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the University of Arizona.
In Glendale Elementary School District in Arizona, Dr. Bell coached principals in priority schools using the PLC continuous improvement model to raise student achievement levels in underperforming schools.
She has presented at a variety of state and national conferences and seminars including the Missouri School Boards Association and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. She has also facilitated professional development workshops focused on priority standards, common formative assessments, use of data for interventions, professional learning teams and systems for success, and mutual accountability for PLCs.
Dr. Bell earned a doctorate in urban leadership and policy studies from University of Missouri–Kansas City.
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