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Dr. Marcia L. Tate
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770-918-5039
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Loch Lomond Drive Conyers Ga. 30094 e-mail
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Dr. Marcia L. Tate
Developing Minds, Inc.
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
250,000
administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders
throughout the world. She is the author of the following five
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; (3) Reading and Language Arts
Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies that Engage the
Brain; (4) Shouting Won’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Techniques for Managing a
Brain-compatible Classroom; and her latest, Mathematics Worksheets Don’t
Grow Dendrites – 20 Numeracy 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, and two granddaughters, Christian
and
Aidan Brooke.
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