Giselle O. Martin-Kniep

Giselle O. Martin-Kniep is an American educator, researcher, program evaluator, and writer. As the president of Learner-Centered Initiatives, and the CEO of Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change ^[1] previously called the Center for the Study of Expertise in Teaching and Learning. Martin-Kniep has worked with hundreds of schools and districts nationally and internationally in the areas of alternative assessment, standards-based design, school improvement and action research.^[2]

Most recently (2011), her work in appraisal review systems has been accepted by New York State Department of Education as an adoption system for use with public school district-wide APPR work.

About

Martin-Kniep has multiple graduate degrees in communication and development, social sciences in education, and educational evaluation from Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She has served on the faculty at Adelphi University, the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria.^[3][4]

Bibliography

• (1998) Why Am I Doing This: Purposeful Teaching with Portfolio Assessment. Heinemann.
• (1999) Capturing the Wisdom of Practice: Portfolios for Teachers and Administrators and Becoming a Better Teacher: Eight Innovations that Work. ASCD
• (2003) Developing Learning Communities Through Teacher Expertise. Corwin Press^[5]
• (2005) Becoming a Better Teacher: Eight Innovations that Work. Prentice-Hall
• (2007) Communities that Learn, Lead and Last: Building and Sustaining Educational Expertise. Jossey-Bass.
• (2008) Supporting Mathematical Learning: Effective Instruction, Assessment, and Student Activities, Grades K-5 (with Joanne Picone-Zocchia) Jossey-Bass
• (2009) Changing the Way You Teach, Improving the Way Students Learn (with Joanne Picone-Zocchia). ASCD

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