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Wilma Kozai, an instructional leader and consultant who works with central
office leaders, principals, coaches, and teachers, K-12 nationally. She has
40 years of experience in education and has been a classroom teacher, Title
1 resource teacher, Race/Human Relations Facilitator, elementary and middle
school principal and assistant superintendent of K-12 culturally diverse,
low socio-economic schools. As assistant superintendent , she supervised 12
of the lowest performing middle and alternative high schools and helped them
begin to close the achievement gap as well as raise the achievement of all
students.
For the past five years, Wilma has helped districts in the following ways:
- Create a year long professional development plan around math or literacy
- Taught administrators how to use walkthroughs to:
- Build a vision of powerful instruction and student learning
- Analyze classroom practice in order to:
- Look for patterns of strengths and areas of need to inform professional
development and build capacity
- Check for implementation of new learnings after professional development
- Modeled how to have a conference with a teacher after a classroom
observation that is more supportive than evaluative
- Taught how to lead and support the work of coaches
- Monitor student and teacher progress
- Model how to have a strong leadership voice through conversations,
instructional memos, openings and closings at professional development
sessions
- What it means to be an instructional leader with a teachable point of view
Her professional development has had direct impact on the instructional
practices of teachers and student achievement.
She is knowledgeable about CA and other state math standards as well as NCTM
focal points and standards.
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