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Catherine Brown
Catherine works with thousands of teachers throughout the nation each year. Participants consistently rate her staff development opportunities at the top of the scale.
Catherine has worked with students and teachers in grades K-adult for over twenty years. She has experience teaching in public and private schools, in general education, bilingual, reading, English language acquisition and development K-12, sheltered instruction / SDAIE, content-based ELD, adult ESL, and Spanish for native and non-native speakers. Currently she works as a featured national consultant with the largest provider of staff development opportunities for educators in the United States, the Bureau of Education and Research (BER), is a frequent presenter at national conferences, consults with districts throughout the United States, and serves as adjunct faculty for Portland State and Antioch Universities.
Catherine is descended from a long line of educators. For three generations, her family has dedicated itself to offer the best to students and their families. Catherine is the wife of an exemplary middle school PE teacher and wrestling coach, and the mother of two children attending public education.
Cindy Strickland
Cindy Strickland is a national consultant specializing in differentiation and gifted education with over twenty years of experience.
Ms. Strickland has taught music, French, humanities, and gifted education to every age group from elementary through college. She has been involved in developing curriculum for gifted students and recently won a national award for a middle school unit about Dabrowski's Theory of Overexciteabilities. As a research assistant to Carol Ann Tomlinson, president of the National Association for Gifted Children, Ms. Strickland has been involved in the writing of several publications, including Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 9-12 and The Parallel Curriculum in the Classroom. Her work in differentiation and gifted programs has earned her the University of Virginia's Curry School Scholarship and the Caryl McNees Award. Ms. Strickland is an adjunct faculty member for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at the University of Virginia. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in gifted education at the University of Virginia.
Eric Jensen
Eric Jensen is a former teacher with a real love of learning. He grew up in San Diego and attended public schools. While his academic background is in English and human development, he has a real love of educational neuroscience. For over 20 years, he has been connecting the research with practical classroom applications. Most importantly, he models what he has learned, so teachers can see it, hear it and experience the difference.
Mark Boynton
Mark Boynton is an outstanding educator, teacher trainer and author. Drawing upon his 32 years’ experience as a classroom teacher, counselor, elementary principal and secondary principal, Mark has learned what works and what doesn’t when it comes to effective discipline for today’s students, especially those that are most challenging. Mark’s elementary and secondary schools have been recognized on numerous occasions for their outstanding discipline and student management systems. His schools have also been recognized for their impressive levels of academic achievement. Mark is a frequently sought-after national presenter who has worked with over 300 schools and districts seeking practical student management programs that work with today’s students. Mark is the co-author of the highly acclaimed books, The Educator’s Guide to Preventing and Solving Discipline Problems (ASCD) and The Educator’s Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline (ASCD).
Chris Boynton
Christine Boynton is a retired public school educator who has been a speech pathologist, a substitute classroom teacher, a program director, an elementary principal, and finally an assistant superintendent in a district of 17,000 students. Christine received her doctorate in educational leadership from Seattle University. She is currently an educational consultant who works with school districts and individual schools in a number of areas, including discipline assessments, teacher and principal evaluations, policies, and climate issues.
Marilyn McGuire
Marilyn McGuire is an experienced educator, an outstanding presenter, and a national and international consultant. Her workshops, presentations, keynote speeches, and custom designed programs consistently receive outstanding evaluations. Marilyn's broad educational experience spans all levels: classroom teacher, special educator, administrator, staff development specialist, and author. This experience coupled with her humorous, practical and engaging style makes her a frequently requested speaker for any educational setting.
Initially trained as a secondary English teacher, Marilyn quickly put her philosophy of life-long learning into practice. In her very first teaching assignment she frequently worked with special needs students that demonstrated a variety of reading and learning difficulties. Her desire to learn more about effectively meeting students' needs resulted in her earning a Master of Science in special education from Portland State University and a Reading Specialist degree from Western Washington University. She then went on to earn K-12 administrator credentials while working as a staff development specialist.
Trapper Woods
 Trapper Woods, with a career that spans more than forty years, is an executive leader, corporate
consultant, company president, and business owner. He has co-authored three books including
Tick Tock!...Who Broke the Clock? Solving the Work-Life Balance Equation, Service! Some
People Just Don’t Get It!, and his latest, Forget the 7 Habits and Break All the Rules!
Ridiculously Easy Time Management! Trapper has traveled more than 2.5 million miles
influencing tens of thousands of people throughout the United States, Canada, and the United
Kingdom. Trapper is a well-known authority in the field of personal effectiveness and is
affectionately known as FatherTime™.
A professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), Trapper is the recipient of the
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation. This designation is the speaking industry’s
international measure of professional platform skills. Fewer than ten percent of professional
speakers world-wide hold this honor. Audiences connect emotionally with Trapper because he
loves people and he loves his work! His presentations are punctuated with real-life experiences,
stories, and anecdotes that ignite life-changing energy in those who experience any one of his
many programs. His engaging style is the result of his fundamental belief in the goodness inherent
within each person and the value of diversity.
Heidi Andrade
Dr. Andrade came to UAlbany after three years at Ohio University. Prior to taking a position at OU, she spent eleven years at Harvard University, where she earned her masters and doctoral degrees and worked on a variety of teaching, research, and development initiatives at Harvard Project Zero. Her work focuses on the relationships between thinking, learning, and assessment, with an emphasis on student self-assessment. Dr. Andrade has designed thinking-centered instruction and assessments for classrooms, after-school programs, children's television shows, and CD-ROMs. She has written numerous articles, including an award-winning article for Educational Leadership (1997), and has co-authored two books: Teaching through projects: Creating effective learning environments (1995) and Thinking connections: Learning to think and thinking to learn (1994).
Leanne Luttrell
 Leanne Luttrell, has been working as a teacher for the last 16 years at the elementary level in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a magna cum laude graduate from Mars Hill College with a BA in Elementary Education (math concentration). She earned her M.Ed. in middle grades math and science education from Brenau University. She also has her gifted teaching certificate.
In addition to other awards and honors, Miss Luttrell received the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
She has been part of various gifted programs all her academic life and loved the mental challenges her teachers provided for her while in school. She has always loved puzzles and logic. As a teacher, she discovered her students have the same natural curiosity. She began to develop teaching tools that continue to challenge her students on a weekly basis both in the classroom and at home.
From her own classroom experiences she has written a series of books that are stimulating and challenging using Venn diagrams and sequencing puzzles that can be used in your own classroom environment. These books are also great for any middle school child or adult looking for many hours of challenging fun.
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