Laurie Barron is superintendent of the Evergreen School District in
Kalispell, Montana, and was named 2021 Montana Superintendent of
the Year. She has been a high school English teacher and coach, a
middle school assistant principal, a middle school principal, and a
part-time assistant professor. A National Board-certified teacher,
she was 2012 Georgia Principal of the Year and 2013 MetLife/NASSP
National Middle Level Principal of the Year. Barron is a coauthor
of the books What Parents Need to Know About Common Core and Other
College- and Career-Ready Standards and Middle School: A Place to
Belong and Become and has authored numerous articles. She is also a
speaker who provides motivation and professional learning to
teachers and administrators throughout the United States.
Patti Kinney speaks, presents, and consults on middle-level
education. She is a past president of the Association for Middle
Level Education and of the Oregon Middle Level Association. In
1996, she was Oregon Assistant Principal of the Year; in 2003, she
was both Oregon Principal of the Year and the Met-Life/NASSP
National Middle Level Principal of the Year. Kinney has written
several books, including Fostering Student Accountability Through
Student- Led Conferences and (with Laurie Barron) What Parents Need
to Know about Common Core and Other College- and Career- Ready
Standards and Middle School: A Place to Belong and Become. Her
numerous articles include regular pieces in NASSP's Principal
Leadership.
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