Michelle Marrillia

Michelle Marrillia

Michelle Marrillia has 17 years of experience as an educator and is currently an assistant principal of Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Kentucky. As an instructional coach, staff developer, and PLC coordinator at Fern Creek, Michelle helped move the school from a persistently low-achieving school in 2010 to a proficient school in 2015.

In 2017, Fern Creek won Solution Tree’s prestigious DuFour Award and $25,000 prize. Created in honor of PLC architect Richard DuFour, the award credits high-performing schools that demonstrate exceptional levels of student achievement. In 2016, Fern Creek received the School Innovation and Change Award through the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative.

Michelle specializes in training instructional coaches in PLCs, creating differentiated professional learning programs for beginning and sustaining successful PLCs, implementing RTI systems, developing teacher leaders, and using PLCs to support turnaround efforts in schools with at-risk populations. Twitter: @michellemarrill

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Presentations by Michelle Marrillia

• The Case for Coaches in Professional Learning Communities
• Turning Data into Successful Secondary Classroom Instruction
• Creating a Culture of Change: The Power of the PLC
• The Road to Collaborative Leadership
• Academic Advising and Response to Intervention
• Urban School Turnaround
• Student Progress Monitoring: Effectively Driving Instruction
• Every Student Counts: Improving Achievement through Focused Interventions
• Using Data to Drive Collaboration in a Professional Learning Community