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Dawn Billings

 

Dawn Billings, a consultant, has over 20 years of administrative experience in school and district improvement work, program management, professional development, and policy development and implementation.

Dawn Billings

Dawn Billings, a consultant, has over 20 years of administrative experience in school and district improvement work, program management, professional development, and policy development and implementation. She has taught at middle and high schools in urban and rural school districts and held a variety of administrative positions in public education and business and industry.

She served for three years as assistant superintendent for professional development for Washington State, where she was responsible for statewide professional development, including multiday research-based professional development conferences attended by more than 9,000 educators annually. She led the design and development of Washington State Professional Development Standards, which provided the research base for Washington school and district efforts in professional development.

Dawn was also director of curriculum and instruction for the Oregon Department of Education, where she led the development of grade-level content standards and services to low-performing schools, and was direct or Title II, Reading First, Reading Excellence, and Charter Schools federal grant programs. Dawn has extensive experience with state and federal legislation including providing testimony, working with legislative teams and legislative staff, budget preparation, and policy analysis.

She has a BS in education and an MS in secondary education with an emphasis in curriculum and instruction.

  • How to Become a High-Performing School: Training Teams to Benchmark the 10 Indicators of Effectiveness
  • The Essential Components of High Performance: Benchmarking Curriculum/Instruction/Assessment
  • Looking at Leadership: When Principals Are Focused on Student Learning, Student Achievement Soars
  • Creating a Student-Centered School: Best Practices in Supporting Student Connectedness and Engagement
  • Creating a Powerful Learning Environment: Ensuring Trust, Support, and Challenge in Your School
  1. authorspeak

    Indianapolis, Indiana | 10/30/12 – 11/01/12

    Presenters:
    James A. Bellanca, Mark Van Clay, Perry Soldwedel, Thomas W. Many, Catherine Glaude, Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, William N. Bender, Laura Waller , Darlene Crane, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Carol Rothenberg , Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins, Margarita Calderón, Kay Burke, Eileen Depka, Robert J. Marzano, William M. Ferriter, Douglas B. Reeves, Ricardo L. García, Will Richardson, Rob Mancabelli, Anne Davies, Stephen White, Ruby K. Payne, Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, Chris Weber, Cassandra Erkens, Anthony Muhammad, Eric Twadell, Allen N. Mendler, Robin J. Fogarty, Brian M. Pete, Alan November, Janel Keating, Adam Garry, Tom Hierck, Nicole Vagle, Chris Jakicic, Alex Gonzalez, David A. Sousa, Carol Ann Tomlinson, Donna Walker Tileston, Carolyn Chapman, Raymond L. Smith, Dawn Billings, Mardale Dunsworth, Susan M. Brookhart, Timothy D. Kanold, Mary Kim Schreck, Richard Sagor, Beth Russell, Jane A. G. Kise, Kipp Rogers, Meg Ormiston, Anne E. Conzemius, Toby J. Karten, Cate Hart Hyatt, Carrie Chapman, Sheila A. Eller, John F. Eller, Margo Gottlieb, Kim Bailey, Jason T. Ramsden, Eric C. Sheninger, Larry Alper, Kerry Bollman, Holly Windram, Kimberly Williams, Martha Kaufeldt, Gayle Gregory, Diane J. Briars, Francis (Skip) Fennell, Diane Lapp, David Hyerle, Sharroky Hollie, Edie L. Holcomb, Sandra Herbst, Sara Johnson, Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Angela Maiers, Nicholas Jay Myers, Terry Morganti-Fisher, Beth Parrott Reynolds, William S. Roulston, Brian D. Mendler, Laura Lipton, Bruce Wellman, Meg Carnes, Kitty Porterfield