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Dr. Marcia L. Tate
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770-918-5039
2911
Loch Lomond Drive Conyers Ga. 30094 e-mail
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BIOGRAPHY
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Marcia L. Tate, Ed. D. is the former Executive Director
of Professional Development for the DeKalb County School System,
Decatur, Georgia. During her 30-year career with the district, she has
been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator,
and staff development director. She received the 2001 Distinguished
Staff Developer Award for the State of Georgia and her department was
chosen to receive the Exemplary Program Award for the state.
Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over
125,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community
leaders throughout the world. She is a member of the Corwin Press
Speaker’s Bureau and the author of the following three best-sellers: (1)
Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage
the Brain, (2) Sit & Get Won’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning
Strategies that Engage the Adult Brain, and (3) Reading and Language
Arts Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies that Engage
the Brain. Participants in her workshops refer to them as the best ones
they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the 20 strategies outlined
in her books to actively engage her audiences.
Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary
education from Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia. She earned her
Master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia
State University and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark
Atlanta University. Spelman College awarded her the Apple Award for
excellence in the field of education.
Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three
children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher. She can be contacted by
calling her company, Developing Minds Inc. at (770) 918-5039 or by
e-mail at marciata@bellsouth.net. V
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