Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D. is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento, and Co-Director of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior in El Dorado Hills, California. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as Mexico, Central and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Islands of the South Pacific.
Costa has written numerous books, including Techniques for Teaching Thinking (with Larry Lowery), The School as a Home for the Mind, and Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools (with Robert Garmston). He is editor of Developing Minds: a Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, co-editor (with Rosemarie Liebmann) of the Process as Content Trilogy: Envisioning Process as Content, Supporting the Spirit of Learning, and The Process Centered School.
Active in many professional organizations, Costa served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1988 to 1989.
Bena Kallick, Ph.D. is a private consultant providing services to school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations and public sector agencies throughout the United States. Dr. Kallick received her doctorate in educational evaluation with Union Graduate School. Her areas of focus include group dynamics, creative and critical thinking and alternative assessment strategies in the classroom. Formerly a Teachers' Center Director, Dr. Kallick also created a Children's Museum based on problem solving and invention.
She was the coordinator of a high school alternative designed for at-risk students. Her written work includes Literature to Think About (a whole language curriculum published with Weston Woods Studios), Changing Schools Into Communities for Thinking, North Dakota Study Group, University of North Dakota, Assessment in the Learning Organization, co-authored with Arthur Costa, from ASCD, Sept. 1995. Her audio tapes include Creative and Critical Thinking: Teaching Alternatives and Collaborative Learning: Strategies to Encourage Thinking (with Marian Leibowitz). She is co-founder of TECHPATHS, a company designed to facilitate teacher's networks and communications about performance assessment. Dr. Kallick's teaching appointments have included Yale University School of Organization and Management, University of Massachusetts Center for Creative and Critical Thinking, and Union Graduate School. She is on the Boards for JOBS for the Future and the Apple Foundation.
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ArtCosta@Aol.com He may also be contacted through his assistant, Lisa Joseph, at: ccclj@aol.com |
Bena Kallick may be contacted via e-mail at: Bkallick@Aol.com She may also be contacted through her assistant, Carol Hunsicker, at: HunsickerC@Aol.com |
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 Barb Aust  Kathleen and Rob Bocchino Kathleen Bocchino is a national and international consultant with Heart of Change Associates, the company she co-founded with her husband and partner, Rob. The company's name reflects her belief that deep organizational change begins with deep personal change by the people involved in the process. She taught in Upstate New York public schools for 18 years before beginning her work as a staff development specialist. She has since worked as a full-time consultant, university professor, Executive Director of Instructional Support Services at a New York State BOCES and most recently as the Director of New Teacher Induction for the New York City Department of Education, where she created and leads a new system wide induction program for New York City's eight thousand new teachers each year. She has worked in the public and private sector including the Department of Defense Schools, Fortune 500 companies, local and state governments, and educational and political organizations. Kathleen's areas of expertise include organizational change, group dynamics, thinking skills, conscious leadership, facilitation and presentation, and coaching and mentoring for excellence. Kathleen is madly in love with her husband, her two grown sons and daughter-in-law; she is quite fond of her golden retriever Annie Oakley; and she really likes living near water, gardening, dancing, and travel. Rob Bocchino is an international consultant, teacher and facilitator. He has expertise in brain-compatible learning, Habits of Mind, and communication skills, as well as group dynamics, change, and leadership. Rob has worked in the area of systems and individual change for over eighteen years, and during that time he has worked in dozens of large cities, including New York City, Washington, Tokyo, Heidelberg, and Kansas City to help educators create brain-based approaches to instruction and change processes. He is currently working with the College Board to design and present its new Leadership Institute for Principals. Rob was commissioned to design the curriculum, and be the primary presenter at, the first International Peace Conference in Cairo. The goals of this conference were to teach strategies and skills for conflict resolution, leadership and advanced communication. Rob is a guitar player and songwriter, and he loves bicycling and swimming. He is happiest whenever his family, including his brilliant wife—who taught him everything he knows—his two handsome boys, a wonderful daughter-in-law and his ever-faithful dog, are near. Rob's book Emotional Literacy is available from Corwin Press. He is currently working on a book which focuses on conscious leadership; it will also be published by Corwin Press. Kathleen and Rob Bocchino Alan Cooper Theron Cosgrave Ilene Doty Jane Ellison Carolee Hayes Marlene C. Honermann Marlene C. Honermann Nadine McDermott Mary Oberg Mary Oberg is a career educator with 38 years of experience as a classroom teacher, resource teacher, administrator, and coordinator of programs for students at all grade levels. For the past 21 years, she has served as consultant in the areas of diversity, organizational development, leadership, staff development design, curriculum design, instructional strategies and assessment in the Minneapolis Public Schools. Mary is currently the National Urban Alliance Coordinator for the West Metro Education Program (WMEP), a consortium of eleven urban and suburban school districts dedicated to leadership and implementation of a voluntary desegregation program. In this capacity, Mary models Habits of Mind and Cognitive CoachingSM with teachers, administrators and staff to implement a more inclusive, multi-cultural curriculum to meet the needs of a changing and increasingly diverse student population. The diversity of learning styles and the impact of poverty are concepts integrated into all of Mary's workshops and presentations. Mary's expertise derives from a wide range of educational projects and programs that have been under her direction: Whole Brain Learning Project, curriculum standards implementation, instructional design systems, gifted/talented programmatic design, thinking and reasoning skills, and research on the "Impact of Standards on Diverse Urban Populations." Mary teaches graduate courses in curriculum design, effective teaching techniques, implications of culture and style on teaching and learning, Cognitive CoachingSM, Habits of Mind, and the Chadwick Consensus model. She is co-author of the book Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms. Mary Oberg Barbara A. Owens Lynn Sawyer Nancy Skerrit Paula Wilkes, Ph.D. |
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Copyright © 2000–2008 Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick. All rights reserved.
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