MaryLou McGirr was a classroom teacher for 23 years in Huron and Tulare, South Dakota, prior to coming to TIE. She taught computer education, business education, K-12 gifted education, and video productions. As an Education Specialist at TIE, MaryLou engages in a diversity of educational consultant work guiding educators and schools in a capacity building and continuous improvement process. With attention to the research base, MaryLou and colleagues engage in strategies and processes for impacting teaching and learning practically and productively. She enjoys working with all audiences in organizational development and strategic planning. As a certified Agency Trainer with the Center of Cognitive CoachingSM, MaryLou facilitates Foundation Trainings and Proficiency in Coaching Trainings to educators across the state.

Contact MaryLou: mmcgirr@tie.net

Current Projects:

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• Learning Power - Online Advanced Placement Program
• Department of Education Mentoring and Coaching Institute (DOE MCI); focus includes Cognitive CoachingSM Foundation Training
• Department of Education Mentoring and Coaching Institute (DOE PMI); focus includes intensitve study and refinement of Cognitive CoachingSM Foundation Training

Expertise:

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• Organizational Development
• Strategic Planning
• Team Building
• Cognitive CoachingSM
• Building Learning and Leadership Communities
• Evaluation
• Organizational skills, human relations, leadership characteristics, and oral and written communication skills
• Collaboratively lead, manage, implement, and assess work projects using an action research cycle and a work plan process
• Current technologies for professional productivity and the enhancement of teaching and learning
• Knowledge and skills associated with current literature and practice regarding valid assessment, sound curriculum, and effective instructional practice

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