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Want to create learning communities where:

• Kids learn more?
• Teachers teach better?
• Principals empower?
• Everyone grows?

Visionary leaders realize our industry is experiencing a fundamental shift FROM teachers teaching (an activity) TO student learning (a result measured by standardized tests.) Adapting to this baseline change requires systemic re-engineering. The question successful leaders are asking is: What would it take for every teacher to collaborate every instructional day? Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.

Anne’s innovative insights and research-based strategies equip education leaders with the tools to make continuous improvement. With a laser focus on learning by all stakeholders, a leading-edge school district can achieve 90% passing rates for all student populations. Learn how to create a corporate culture of extraordinary learning in your classrooms, your district and your community.

Anne Barab is a recovering school board member. During her three terms she helped her district transition from a firestorm of community controversy to being named one of the Top 100 Districts in the U.S. by The Wall Street Journal. She earned the Master Trustee designation awarded by the Texas Association of School Boards and completed over 450 hours of school board training.

The 34,000 students in her district speak 96 languages and are 50% free and reduced lunch. During her tenure, passing rates for white students rose from 70% to 91%, while African American and Hispanic passing rose from 45% to 85%. At the same time, board members had to cut 25% from the total operating budget. Today it’s the ONLY large, diverse district in Texas to achieve Recognized status 3 years in a row.

Anne has dealt with the same problems every educator in the country is facing, namely declining dollars in the face of rising student performance expectations and punitive accountability legislation. Her programs provide education leaders strategies for creating extraordinary learning communities.

Ten years ago Anne accepted her calling to become a motivational and inspirational speaker for audiences around the world. She’s written two books and numerous articles about education and family living. However, her greatest claim to fame is being:

• married for thirty-seven long years to the same engineer,
• having three children who are not currently in jail, and
• being voted Best Smelling Mom by her son’s first grade.