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      Tammy Heflebower, EdD, is a highly sought-after school leader and consultant with vast experience in urban, rural, and suburban districts throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, and the Netherlands. Dr. Heflebower has served as an award-winning classroom teacher, building leader, district leader, regional professional development director, and national and international trainer. She has also been an adjunct professor of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at several universities, and a prominent member and leader of numerous statewide and national educational organizations. Dr. Heflebower was the vice president and then senior scholar at Marzano Research prior to becoming the CEO of her own company, !nspire Inc: Education and Business Solutions. She also specializes in powerful presentation and facilitation techniques—writing and sharing them worldwide.

      Dr. Heflebower is widely published. She is lead author of the award-winning book A School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading and is coauthor of Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools: The Next Step in PLCs and Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills. She is a contributor to A Handbook for High Reliability Schools: The Next Step in School Reform, Becoming a Reflective Teacher, Coaching Classroom Instruction, The Highly Engaged Classroom, The Principal as Assessment Leader, The Teacher as Assessment Leader, and Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment. Her articles have been featured in Kappan, Educational Leadership, Diversity Journal, Education Week blog, and the Nebraska Council of School Administrators Today.

      Dr. Heflebower holds a bachelor of arts from Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, where she was honored as an Outstanding Young Alumna and her team was inducted into the hall of fame. She has a master of arts from the University of Nebraska Omaha. She also earned an educational administrative endorsement and a doctor of education in educational administration from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

      Jan K. Hoegh has been an educator for thirty-plus years and an author and associate for Marzano Research since 2010. Prior to joining the Marzano team, she was a classroom teacher, building-level leader, professional development specialist, assistant high school principal, curriculum coordinator, and most recently assistant director of statewide assessment for the Nebraska Department of Education, where her primary focus was Nebraska State Accountability test development. Hoegh has served on a variety of statewide and national standards and assessment committees and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

      As an associate with Marzano Research, Hoegh works with educators around the world as they strive to improve student achievement. Her passion for education, combined with extensive knowledge of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, provides credible support for teachers, leaders, schools, and districts. A primary training focus for Hoegh is high-quality classroom assessment and grading practices. She is a coauthor of the books Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools and A School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading, as well as other publications.

      Hoegh holds a bachelor of arts in elementary education and a master of arts in educational administration, both from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She also earned a specialization in assessment from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

      Philip B. Warrick, EdD, spent the first twenty-five years of his education career as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent and has experience in leading schools in the states of Nebraska and Texas. Dr. Warrick was named 1998 Nebraska Outstanding New Principal of the Year and was the 2005 Nebraska State High School Principal of the Year. He is a past regional president for the Nebraska Council of School Administrators (NCSA) and also served on the NCSA legislative committee. In 2003, he was one of the initial participants to attend the Nebraska Educational Leadership Institute, conducted by the Gallup Corporation at Gallup University in Omaha. In 2008, Dr. Warrick was hired as the campus principal at Round Rock High School in Round Rock, Texas. In 2010, he was invited to be an inaugural participant in the Texas Principals’ Visioning Institute, where he collaborated with other principals from the state of Texas to develop a vision for effective practices in Texas schools.

      Dr. Warrick has coauthored A School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading, Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools, A Handbook for High Reliability Schools, and Leading a High Reliability School. Dr. Warrick joined the Solution Tree–Marzano Research team in 2011 and works as an author and global consultant in the areas of school leadership, curriculum, instruction, assessment, grading, and collaborative teaming. He earned a bachelor of science from Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska, and earned master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

      Jeff Flygare is a former classroom teacher, English department chair, professional developer, and building-level leader. During his twenty-six-year career teaching high school English, he taught nearly every course in the department. Flygare developed classes in mythology, Shakespeare, philosophy, and comparative religions, and worked with social studies colleagues to create an interdisciplinary class called World Studies, which he team-taught successfully for seventeen years. He taught Advanced Placement (AP) English classes for twenty-one years and served as an AP English literature reader and table leader for Educational Testing Service for many years. He

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