Education
- University of Illinois at Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
- Bachelor of Science Major: Teaching of Mathematics December 13, 1971
- Chicago State University; Chicago, Illinois
- Master of Science in Education Major: School Guidance and Counseling August 23, 1974
- The John Marshall Law School; Chicago, Illinois
- Thirty Semester Hours General Law September, 1976
- Loyola University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
- Doctor of Philosophy School Administration and Supervision Dissertation: The Relationship Between a Principal‟s Leadership Style and the Activities Engaged in During the Implementation of a New District Program January 16, 1982
- Northern Illinois University;DeKalb, Illinois
- Eight Semester Hours Major: School Business Management December, 1983
Presentations
- Co-Presented a program titled: Balanced Decision Making, at the 62nd Annual Tri-Conference of the Illinois Association of School Boards, November 20, 1994.
- Presented a program titled: 10-point analysis helps decipher salary schedule, at the 75th Annual Tri-Conference of the Illinois Association of School Boards, November 17, 2007.
- Presented a demonstration of a school funding issue to the Better Funding for Better Schools Coalition at a regular meeting of the Coalition November 17, 2008.
- Presented a program titled: 648 Years of Leadership! to the South Cook Division of Illinois Association of School Administrators Superintendent Mentoring Group at a meeting April 29, 2009.
- Presented a seminar titled: Teacher Salary Schedules: Ten-Point Analysis, sponsored by the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, April 17, 2009.
- Presented a poster display titled, 648 Years of School District Leadership!, at the Illinois Research Symposium, June 10, 2009.
- Presented a seminar titled: Share Your School Law Teaching Ideas, at the 55th Annual Conference of the Education Law Association, October 24, 2009.
- Presented a seminar titled: Teacher Salary Schedules: Ten-Point Analysis, sponsored by the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, January 11, 2010.
- Presented a demonstration titled: "$1,000 Per Pupil, A Big Deal?" to the Illinois Association of School Administrators South-Cook Division, at its Legislative Breakfast, January 22, 1010.
- Presented a demonstration titled: "$1,000 Per Pupil, A Big Deal?" to the Educational Funding Advisory Board, at its regular meeting, February 10, 2010.
- Presented a seminar titled: Digging Deeper into Report Card Financial Data, sponsored by the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, April 9, 2010.
- Presented a seminar titled: Superintendent Ethics to the South-Cook Division of IASA Superintendent Mentoring Group on April 28, 2010.
- Presented a seminar titled: The Use of Student Growth Measures in Teacher Evaluations and Race to the Top Grants, sponsored by the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, May 5, 2010.
- Presented a workshop titled: Merit pay for Teachers: A Time to Give it a Chance, at the Illinois Research Symposium, June 9, 2010.
- Presented a poster display titled: Student Clubs and Activities: A Hidden Benefit of Equitable Funding! at the Illinois Research Symposium, June 9, 2010.
- Presented a workshop session titled: The Implementation Process in Changing to the Use of Student Growth Measures to Evaluate Teachers and/or Pay Teachers for Performance, at the Critical Questions in Education Conference, November 8, 2010.
- Presented an update on the Teacher/Principal Evaluation Law at the Iroquois/Kankakee County Superintendents' Meeting, November 9, 2010.
- Presented a workshop titled: Salary Schedule Basics at the Educational Support Professionals Conference, sponsored by the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, December 3, 2010.
- Presented an overview titled: State of Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Update at the MILE/TQP Principal Evaluation Meeting, March 16, 2011.
- Presented a seminar titled: Certification Test Strategy to GSU interns on March 24, 2011.
- Presented three sessions titled: Making Performance Count: The Performance Evaluation Reform Act of 2010, at the Regional Annual Conference of the Superintendents' Commission for the Study of Demographics and Diversity, March 24 and March 25, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Embedding Fairness in a Teacher Evaluation Plan That Uses Student Growth Data, for the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, March 28, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act Update to the Forest Ridge School District 142 Teacher Evaluation Committee, April 13, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Update on the Use of Student Growth Measures for Accountability and Teacher/Principal Evaluations, at the Illinois Association of School Administrators Annual Conference, April 14, 2011.
- Presented a workshop session titled: Embedding Fairness Throughout the Teacher Evaluation Process at the Education Research Symposium, June 8, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act Update to the Dolton/Riverdale School District 148 Teacher Evaluation Committee, June 14, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Illinois Education Reform Bill to the faculty of the SPEED Special Education Cooperative, July 27, 2011.
- Consulted on the Performance Evaluation Reform Act with Superintendent and Administrative Team of Bremen High School District 228, September 20, 2011.
- Presented a second workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act Update to the Forest Ridge School District 142 Teacher Evaluation Committee, September 27, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Basics for Board Members, sponsored by the Metropolitan Institute for Leadership in Education (MILE), October 1, 2011.
- Consulted on the Performance Evaluation Reform Act with Superintendent and Union President of Sunnybrook School District 171, October 12, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act to the Illinois Association of School Administrators South-Cook Division, October 13, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act to the South Holland School District #150 Faculty, October 17, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act to the ECHO Special Education Cooperative, October 26, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act to the Thornton High School District 205 Teacher Evaluation Committee, October 27, 2011.
- Presented a seminar titled: Embedding Fairness/Due Process Throughout the Evaluation of Teachers at the 57th Annual Conference of the Education Law Association, November 11, 2011.
- Presented a panel session on Highlights of the New Teacher Evaluation Law, at the Illinois Association of School Boards Annual Tri-Conference, November 19, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act Update to the Eisenhower Special Education Cooperative Faculty, November 28, 2011.
- Presented a workshop titled: Performance Evaluation Reform Act Update to the Blue Island School District #130 Administrative Council, November 28, 2011.
- Presented a panel session on an Update of PERA at the Illinois Association of School Boards Annual Tri-Conference, November 17, 2012.
Publications
- Response to Question, Are Standards Too Low? for “ASCD Update,” March, 1984.
- Article Titled: Learn to Lead by Strolling Around, Published in, “The Executive Educator” June, 1984; Reprinted in, “Design Your Success: A Career Blueprint for the Executive Educator,” a compilation of articles from "The Executive Educator," 1987.
- Book Review of What They Don’t Tell You in Schools of Education About SchoolAdministration, by Robert Black and Fenwick English, published in “Phi Delta Kappan," March, 1989.
- Article Titled: 10-point analysis helps decipher salary schedule, with a side article Titled: An opinion on setting superintendent’s salary, publishedin “The Illinois School Board Journal," May/June, 2007, Volume 75, No. 3.
- Article Titled: Should a District Hire a Business Manager, published in IASBO Newsletter, UPDATE, June/July 2008, Volume 15, No. 10.
- Guest Column Titled: A Bargaining Table Lesson From Baseball’s Mitchell Report, published in “The School Administrator,” November 2008, Volume 65, No. 10.
- Article Titled: ‘Con-Con’ lost, so now what? published in “The Illinois School Board Journal," January/February 2009, Volume 77, Number 1.
- Article Titled: Lessons on bargaining learned the hard way, published in “The Illinois School Board Journal,” July/August 2009, Volume 77, Number 4.
- Article Titled: “Why school districts don't have business managers," published in IASBO magazine UPDATE, Winter, 2010, Volume 17, Issue 2.
- Article Titled: "Clubs and activities: A hidden benefit of equitable funding," published in “The Illinois School Board Journal," March/April 2010, Volume 78, Number 2.
- Article Titled: Merit Pay for Teachers: Time To Give It A Chance, published in "The Journal of School Business Management," Fall 2010, Volume 22, Number 2.
- Article Titled: Embedding Due Process Measures Throughout the Evaluation of Teachers, "NASSP Bulletin," June, 2011, Volume 95, Number 2.
- Article Titled: Are Low Student Test Scores Due to Teacher Incompetence?, published in "Best Practices in School Personnel," AASPA magazine, May/June/July, 2011.
Service
- Member of the Planning and Budgeting Advisory Council (PBAC), 2008-10
- Member of the PBAC Finance and Budget Committee, 2007-2010
- Co-Chairperson of the Higher Learning Commission Criterion 2 Subcommittee, 2008-2010
- Member of the HLC Accreditation Steering Committee, 2008-2010
- Member of the Calendar Implementation Subcommittee, 2008-2009
- Chairperson of the NCATE Standard 6 Accreditation Subcommittee, 2008-2010
- Member of the NCATE Accreditation Steering Committee, 2010-2010
- Member of Division of Education Curriculum Committee, 2006- present
- Member of the University Graduate Council, 2009-2011
- Member of M.A. in Teacher Leadership Planning Group, 2009- present
- Member of Interdisciplinary Leadership Planning Group, 2009- present
- Member of the School Leadership Grant Committee, 2010
- Chairperson of GSU Principal Preparation Program Redesign Committee, 2009 - present
Professional Memberships
- Education Law Association
- Phi Delta Kappa: 35 Year Member
- Illinois Association of School Administrators
- Illinois Association of School Administrators South Cook Division
- Illinois Association of School Administrators Three Rivers Division
- Illinois Association of School Business Officials
- Illinois Association of School Business Officials South Suburban Division
- Illinois Council for Professors of Educational Administration
- American Association of School Administrators
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Illinois Association of School Personnel Administrators
- American Association of School Personnel Administrators
- Better Funding for Better Schools Coalition
Professional Activities: - Co-Founder of the Broadview Chamber of Commerce, 1981-82
- Trainer for the Illinois State Board of Education Administrators’ Academy, 1985-86
- Delegate for the Illinois Association of School Administrators West-Cook Division
- To the Illinois State Board of Education Advisory Committee, 1986-88
- Chairperson of the Educational Benefit Cooperative, 1986-89
- Vice-President West-Cook Division of Illinois Association of School Administrators, 1987-88
- President West-Cook Division of the Illinois Association of School Administrators, 1988-89
- Representative of West-Cook Division IASA to Illinois Association of School Boards, 1988-93
- Delegate to the Education Policy Assembly on Funding Equity, 1990-91
- Panel Member for the Illinois Blue Ribbon Recognition Program, 1991-92
- Co-Founder/Governing Board Member for Political Action Committee, CALL 1993-94
- Chairperson of the South Cook County Elementary Superintendents’, Group 1996-97
- Representative on the Regional Superintendent’s Advisory Committee, 1996-00
- Chairperson of Eisenhower Special Education Cooperative Executive Board, 1999-02
- Delegate to the South Cook County Financial Task Force, 2000-02
- Member of South Cook IASA Superintendent Mentoring Program, 2008-2010
- Member of MILE/TQP Performance Based Evaluation Prototype Committee, 2011
- Member of Illinois State Board of Education Growth Model Working Group, 2010-2011
- Member of Performance Evaluation Advisory Council, 2010 - present
Courses Taught
- EDAD832 School Finance
- EDAD833 School Law
- EDAD836 Administration of School Personnel
- EDAD834 Practicum in Instructional Leadership and School Management I
- EDAD835 Practicum in Instructional Leadership and School Management II
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