Joellen Killion

Joellen Killion champions educator learning as the primary pathway to student success. She serves school systems, schools, regional, state, and national agencies within the U.S. and abroad as a consultant and learning facilitator. She is senior advisor to Learning Forward and formerly was its deputy executive director. Joellen leads, facilitates, and contributes to a number of initiatives related to examining the link among curriculum; leadership; quality instruction; professional learning; and student learning. She has extensive experience in curriculum development and implementation and planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating professional learning. Joellen is a frequent contributor to education publications. Her books include What Works in the Middle; What Works in the Elementary Grades; What Works in the High School; Teachers Who Learn Kids Who Achieve; A Look at Model Professional Development; Assessing the Impact: Evaluating Professional Learning, 3rd edition; Collaborative Professional Learning Teams in Schools and Beyond: A Toolkit for New Jersey Educators Taking the Lead: New Roles for Teachers and School-based Coaches; The Learning Educator: A New Era in Professional Learning; Becoming a Learning School; Coaching Matters, 2nd edition: The Feedback Process: Transforming Feedback for Professional Learning, and Elevating School-based Professional Learning. She has authored and co-authored numerous papers, book chapters, reports, and workbooks, such as PKK's EDge, The Changing Face of Professional Learning; A Systemic Approach to Elevating Teacher Leadership; and resources associated with Transforming Professional Learning for Common Core Implementation. Her particular interests include collaborative learning teams; coaching educator success; evaluation and program auditing; standards for professional learning; professional learning policy; and planning, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive professional learning systems. The creed Joellen lives by is ... Excellence can be achieved if you care more than others think is wise; risk more than others think is safe; dream more than others think is practical; and expect more than others think is possible.