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About the Authors

ANTHONY MUHAMMAD, PHD, is a much sought-after educational consultant. A practitioner for nearly twenty years, he has served as a middle school teacher, assistant principal, and principal, and as a high school principal. His tenure as a practitioner has earned him several awards as both a teacher and a principal. Anthony's most notable accomplishment came as principal of Levey Middle School in Southfield, Michigan, a National School of Excellence, where student proficiency on state assessments more than doubled in five years. Anthony and the staff at Levey used the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ model of school improvement, and they have been recognized in several videos and articles as a model high-performing professional learning community (PLC).

As a researcher, Anthony has published articles in several publications in both the United States and Canada. He is author of Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division and a contributor to The Collaborative Administrator.

To learn more about Anthony, visit www.newfrontier21.com.

SHARROKY HOLLIE, PHD, is a tenured assistant professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in the Teacher Education department. Sharroky teaches reading for secondary teachers, classroom management, and methodology. From 2007 to 2009, he was a visiting professor in diversity at Webster University in St. Louis in the School of Education. In Spring 2011, Sharroky was a guest lecturer at Stanford University.

Sharroky is the cofounder of the nationally acclaimed laboratory school Culture and Language Academy of Success (CLAS) in Los Angeles. CLAS is a K-8 independent charter school that espouses culturally-responsive pedagogy as its primary approach. At CLAS, Sharroky directs and develops the curriculum, professional development, and teacher development. Sharroky is also the executive director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing stellar professional development for educators desiring to become culturally responsive, where he serves as a national expert, traveling around the country training thousands of teachers.

Sharroky is a featured author for Pearson publishing, coauthoring with Jim Cummins in the Cornerstone and Keystone series and contributing to its Prentice Hall anthology. His work has appeared in several edited texts, including Teaching African American Learners to Read and Talkin Black Talk. He is also the author of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning: Classroom Practices for Student Success.

To learn more about Sharroky, follow him on Twitter @validateaffirm, or visit his website, www.culturallyresponsive.org.

To book Anthony or Sharroky for professional development, contact pd@solution-tree.com.