Giselle O. Martin-Kniep
Giselle is a teacher educator, researcher, program evaluator, and writer. She is the President of Learner-Centered Initiatives, an educational consulting organization specializing in comprehensive regional and school-based curriculum and assessment work. She is also the Founder and President of Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change™, an organization committed to the development of lasting professional learning communities that learn and lead.

She has a strong background in organizational change and has graduate degrees in communication and development, social sciences in education, and educational evaluation from Stanford University. She has worked with hundreds of schools and districts nationally and internationally in the areas of curriculum and assessment, standards-based design, school improvement, and action research.

Dr. Martin-Kniep has written extensively. Her books include Becoming a Better Teacher: Eight Innovations that Work, Developing Learning Communities Through Teacher Expertise, and Communities that Learn, Lead and Last: Building and Sustaining Educational Expertise.