CAROL BROOKS SIMONEAU, EdD, graduated from the University of Nebraska and earned an MS degree with a Reading Specialist endorsement, an Educational Administration and Leadership endorsement, and a Doctorate in Educational Administration and Leadership from Kansas State University.

She has over 20 years’ experience as a teacher and reading specialist with students of all ages. As a reading specialist, she modeled instructional strategies in the classroom and worked with students in intervention programs created to prevent reading failure. She has also chaired or served as a member on school improvement and accreditation teams designed to develop school community and facilitate achievement.

Dr Simoneau has received the Kansas State Department of Education Distinguished Educator Award. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Kansas Staff Development Council.

Dr Simoneau provides Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools training, and is also a consultant for the Danielson Group, offering instruction in Framework for Teaching and Learning Focused Supervision. She is the author of A Facilitator’s Guide to On-line Professional Development: Establishing Communities of Learning and Cultures of Thinking.

JIM ROUSSIN has worked as a language arts teacher, gifted coordinator, ESL coordinator, curriculum director, executive director of teaching, learning, and school improvement, adjunct professor, and educational consultant. He is currently the executive director for Generative Learning (www.generative-learning.com).

Mr Roussin is the author of a variety of articles as well as a co-author of the book Guiding Professional Learning Communities: Inspiration, Challenge, Surprise, and Meaning (with Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers, 2010). His newest book, with Shirley Hord, is Implementing Change Through Learning.

Additionally, Mr Roussin is a teaching associate for Human Systems Dynamics, an institute that is using complexity theory to impact organizational development work. He also facilitates program evaluation.