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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 Transforming School Culture framework explores the root causes of staff resistance to change.

Anthony’s tenure as a practitioner has earned him several awards as both a teacher and a principal. His 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 (PLCs) at Work® process for school improvement, and the school has been recognized in several videos and articles as a model high-performing 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; The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level; and Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap: Liberating Mindsets to Effect Change and a contributor to The Collaborative Administrator.

To learn more about Anthony’s work, visit New Frontier 21 (www.newfrontier21.com), or follow @newfrontier21 on Twitter.

Luis F. Cruz, PhD, is former principal of Baldwin Park High School and Holland Middle School, located east of Los Angeles, California. He has been a teacher at the elementary level and administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Luis is an educational consultant who presents throughout the United States on PLCs, school culture, the role of school leadership teams, RTI, and the conditions needed for students and parents learning English as a second language to be academically successful.

In 2007, Luis led a collective effort to secure a $250,000 grant for Baldwin Park from the California Academic Partnership Program for the purpose of effectively utilizing courageous leadership to promote a more equitable and effective organization.

Since becoming a public school educator, Luis has won the New Teacher of the Year, Teacher of the Year, and Administrator of the Year awards and other community leadership awards. He and a committee of teacher leaders at Baldwin Park High School received the California School Boards Association’s prestigious Golden Bell Award for significantly closing the achievement gap between the general student population and students learning English as a second language.

As a recipient of the Hispanic Border Leadership Institute’s fellowship for doctoral studies, a fellowship focused on increasing the number of Latino leaders with doctorates, he earned a doctorate in institutional leadership and policy studies from the University of California, Riverside. He earned an associate’s degree from Mt. San Antonio Community College, a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fullerton, and a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University.

To learn more about Luis’s work, follow @lcruzconsulting on Twitter.

To book Anthony Muhammad or Luis F. Cruz for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.