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Barbara Lawson is the Instructional Specialist for the Washington Education Association. She has been an educator for 31 years. Her teaching experience includes teaching in a rural K-8 school, a suburban junior high school and urban high school as well as at the university level. As a staff development director, she developed a mentoring and coaching program for both beginning and experienced teachers, as well as demonstration sites for instruction and assessment practices for a standards-driven system. As Director of Program Development for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, she guided policy and created programs to support teachers in education reform for Washington State. She believes in creating practical applications of theory and research for improved relationships and learning.

Since Barbara has been in more than 6000 classrooms and schools, she has extensive experience coaching individuals, administrators and teams. In addition to peer assistance and facilitation, she has conducted workshops for para-educators, teachers and administrators in a variety of areas including leadership, decision-making, curriculum, instruction, assessment, classroom management, and partnership conferencing.

Barbara is currently working on developing a state-wide system of "sustainability" for education reform as well as co-authoring a book on the Science of Educational Dynamics.

Barbara has worked with Bob Garmston and Art Costa since 1985, both practicing and offering training in Cognitive Coaching^SM.

Barbara Lawson
1036 Paiute Trail
Fox Island, WA 98333

Home Telephone: 253–549–0790
Cell Phone: 253–720–6396
Email: blawson77@comcast.net