| Cheryl Jones-Walker, Ph.D. |
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Cheryl Jones-Walker began her professional career as a fourth grade teacher in the Bronx, NY. She continued teaching in the Boston area independent school and then Internationally in Gabon, Central Africa. Currently she is a post-doctoral fellow in the Educational Studies program at Swathmore College.
Prior to doctoral work at University Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Cheryl worked at the Center for Collaborative Education in Boston, a non-profit educational organization committed to improving urban education K-12. As a facilitator for the Turning Points reform initiative she provided on-site coaching and technical assistance to Boston Public middle schools engaged in systemic reform. In addition, Cheryl co-directed the Boston Pilot Schools, a network of small progressive district schools with charter-like autonomies.
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Services
DISTRICT WIDE SYSTEMIC INQUIRY AND TRANSFORMATION
TIDES invites key shareholders from five to six districts to meet for three days and engage in courageous conversations about ...
PROBLEM BASED LEARNING AND THE COMMON CORE
Learning in the 21st century requires problem solving, collaboration, curiosity, innovation and creativity. TIDES provides teachers with a systematic, student-centered instructional design that ...
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAM DEVELOPMENT
TIDES partners with district central office and principals and teachers to implement effective school-based leadership teams that are able to successfully collaborate and lead their schools to high...
SCHOOL DESIGN, SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION AND TURNAROUND
The TIDES team will work with all shareholders using a DYNAMIC plan model to accelerate the developments of innovative schools, school transformation and turnaround. 21st century school design requires ...
DATA-GUIDED DECISION MAKING
High performing systems know the power of data and monitoring performance regularly. The TIDES approach uses multiple sources of data to put laser like focus on system, teacher, and student strengths. We use ...
SOCIAL NETWORK MAPPING PROCESS
Social Network Analysis is a tool that can provide the district with insights into existing relationship patterns that may be influencing reform efforts. The TIDES process is ...
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