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Annie Griffin
With over 25 years of experience in education, Annie Griffin has transformed classrooms and schools into positive, collaborative learning spaces. She specializes in the PLC process, rural education, literacy, and creating positive culture in schools.
Annie Griffin
Annie Griffin has over 25 years of experience in education, having been a teacher in grades 4–9, a K–12 instructional coach, and a K–5 principal. She is currently the superintendent of Washakie County School District #2 in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. She seeks to put students first in all educational situations and create a family feel in every classroom, school, and district she is involved in. She specializes in the PLC process, rural education, literacy at all levels, and creating positive culture in schools.
As an instructional coach, Annie collaborated to design an induction program for new teachers following the work of Jim Knight. During her tenure as principal of Tongue River Elementary from 2017 to 2022, Annie and her team were awarded a National Blue Ribbon award (2021) and named a Model PLC at Work® school (2022). She is a member of the Wyoming Association of School Administrators and the Wyoming School Board Association.
Annie earned her bachelor’s degree at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, and her master’s degree at the University of Northern Colorado. She also became endorsed in preK–12 administration in 2017 and added her superintendent endorsement in 2022.
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 Annie Griffin
- Next Steps in the PLC Process: The Leader’s Role
- How Positive Leadership Can Lead to Student Success
- The PLC Process: What Comes Next?
- Instructional Strategies for Student Engagement
- Using Assessments to Drive Instruction
- Multiple sessions on reading strategies in the content area: questioning, annotations, paraphrasing, metacognition, fix-up strategies, pre-reading strategies (5-12)
- Formative Assessments in the Classroom
- Cooperative Learning Strategies in the Classroom K–12
- Love and Logic in the Classroom
- Classroom Management
- Increasing Assessment Rigor
- Timely, Systematic, and Relevant Change: Guided Reading
- 6–12 Vocabulary Teaching Strategy
