Danica Lewis has over 20 years of experience in schools, serving as an elementary teacher, an instructional coach, and later as a school and district administrator, including school building leadership, early childhood leadership, special education leadership, and curriculum & assessment leadership in urban and suburban schools. Danica led the implementation of standards-aligned instruction, assessment, and grading as both a district-level and building-level administrator. During her time as a district level leader, she designed and implemented an instructional coaching program district-wide. Danica facilitates powerful professional learning around literacy, standards-aligned instruction and assessment, rigorous teaching, instructional coaching, and professional learning community leadership. In 2017, the Wisconsin Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development recognized Danica as the “Instructional Leader of the Year” for the State of Wisconsin. Danica is the author of "Learning and Growth Focused Coaching Cycles," "Leveraging the Block Schedule for Student Learning Growth," and the soon to be released book, " Journey to Success: The Essential Guide to the First Year of Teaching."
Ann Mausbach, coauthor of Differentiated Supervision: Growing Teachers and Getting Results (Corwin, 2022,) Leading Student-Centered Coaching: Building Principal and Coach Partnerships (Corwin, 2018), School Leadership Through the Seasons: A Guide to Staying Focused and Getting Results All Year (Eye on Education, 2016) and Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement (ASCD, 2008), has been an educator for over 30 years. Ann’s belief that the greatest investment a leader can make is in people not programs has focused her work on supporting principals and teacher leaders with the tools they need to align purpose with action. Her administrative experience includes serving as a coordinator of staff development, director of curriculum, director of elementary education and an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. She currently works as an associate professor for educational leadership at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.