Lyn D Sharratt

Lyn Sharratt coordinates the doctoral internship program in Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Lyn is the former Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction Services in the York Region District School Board, a large Canadian school district, where she and her curriculum team analyzed assessment data and developed a comprehensive literacy improvement program, which they launched with the cooperation of senior leadership, principals, and over 9000 teachers. The continuously improving 14 Parameter research resulted in increased achievement for a diverse, multicultural, and multilingual population of over 120,000 students, and the district became the top performing district in Ontario. Lyn has been a highly successful school superintendent, curriculum consultant and administrator, and she has also taught all elementary grades and secondary-age students in inner-city and rural settings. Lyn has analyzed and commented on public policy for a provincial trustee organization, the Ontario Public School Boards' Association; has taught pre-service education at York University, Masters' and Doctoral students at University of Toronto and at Nipissing University; and led in-service professional learning in a provincial teachers' union head office. She is lead author, with Michael Fullan, of Realization: The Change Imperative for Increasing District-Wide Reform (Corwin, 2009) and Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Leaders Do! (Corwin, 2012, published in English, Spanish and Arabic). Lyn is lead author of Good to Great to Innovate: Recalculating the Route K-12, (Corwin, 2015) with Gale Harild, and Empowering Excellence: Leading Collaborative Learning (Corwin, being launched in 2016) with Beate Planche. Currently, Lyn is an advisor for International School Leadership with the Ontario Principals' Council, is an Author Consultant for Corwin Publishing and consults internationally, working with leaders, administrators, consultants, and teachers in Chile, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to systematically increase all students' achievement by putting FACES on the data and taking intentional action. There are over 500 "Sharratt Schools" across the globe, representing thousands of students. Visit her website at www.lynsharratt.com or contact her on Twitter @LynSharratt and at Linked-In https: //ca.linkedin.com/pub/lyn-sharratt/8/16a/944 where Lyn owns the "Educational Leadership" Linked-In group which has 56,000 members. Her Twitter handle is @LynSharratt #FACESLyn. View Lyn speaking in Ontario about leadership development and system and school improvement for ALL students at http: //learnteachlead.ca/projects/system-improvement/?video=0&active=3

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