Elisa B. MacDonald

Best-selling Corwin Press author and educator for 30 years, Elisa B. MacDonald consults with school districts and organizations helping to advance teacher, school, and district-level teams so that they may achieve the best learning outcomes for all educators and students. (www.elisamacdonald.com) She has published The Skillful Team Leader (2013) and Intentional Moves: How skillful team leaders impact learning (2022) and numerous articles for education journals. Prior to her consulting work, she has proudly held the roles of middle and high school performing arts and english teacher, lead teacher mentor, literacy coach and assistant principal of instruction in the Boston Public Schools; adjunct professor for teacher action research at Boston College; and national director at a non-profit where she built-up and oversaw a teacher team-leadership program in six cities aimed at achieving rapid gains for students in chronically underperforming schools.

When Elisa isn’t championing students and teachers, she is on stage acting, driving her twins to soccer and theater, or experimenting in the kitchen, pretending she’s on the Food Network. Contact Elisa if you want to learn more about skillful intentional team leadership, or if you just want a delicious fudge recipe.

(Twitter) @elisaBmacdonald

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