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McAdams has been a research professor at the University of Houston and an independent quality management consultant, with national and international clients in manufacturing, mining, travel, financial services, healthcare, and education.  Previously, he served as executive vice president of the American Productivity and Quality Center, president of the Texas Independent College Fund, president of Southwestern Adventist College, and professor of history at Andrews University.

In 2002, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige appointed McAdams to the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity.  In 2003, Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed him to a Select Committee charged with preparing legislative proposals for a new public school finance system for the entire state.  He has also served as a member of the National Commission on Governance, Education Commission of the States, Educational Leadership Advisory Council of the Wallace-Readers Digest Funds, and as a consultant to the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.  Additionally, McAdams has served on the boards of a major hospital, two private schools, and many other academic and civic organizations.

McAdams is the author of Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools . . . and Winning! Lessons from Houston (Teachers College Press, 2000), and What School Boards Can Do: Reform Governance for Urban Schools (Teachers College Press, January 2006).  He has also had numerous articles published in academic journals and editorials on education reform published in major newspapers.

McAdams holds a Doctor of Philosophy in British History from Duke University.

Bernath is past president of the Georgia School Boards Association and served on the steering committee for the Vision for Public Education in Georgia (www.visionforpubliced.org).  She has presented at the National School Boards Association conferences and served as a mentor for new school board members at the national, state, and local level.  She is a member of NSBA’s Federal Relations Network and has worked with the Georgia School Boards Association and the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education to train candidates for local school boards and the state legislature in education issues.  She has made education presentations to organizations such as the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and The Performance Institute Balanced Scorecard Masters Seminar.

Bernath is vice chair of the Georgia Professional Standards commission and has served on a number of statewide study committees dealing with education.  She is a graduate of the University of Georgia, with an ABJ in Broadcast News, Magna Cum Laude.  She is also a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, Leadership GSBA, Regional Leadership Institute, Leadership Sandy Springs, The Marcus Jewish Community Center’s Erwin Zaban Leadership Program and Max Kuniansky Senior Leadership Program, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Linking Leadership to Community, and she served as co-chair of the Zaban Leadership Program.  She is a mentor for Leadership Atlanta’s LEAD program and works every year on Education Day (co-chairing in 2013) for both Leadership Atlanta and Leadership Sandy Springs.

As a volunteer in the community, Bernath serves as chair of the Sandy Springs Education Force, a non-profit group that supports at-risk students in the 11 public schools in Sandy Springs.  She is also on the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education Advisory Committee and the board of directors for the Georgia Music Educators Association, as well as the Sandy Springs Tennis Association that serves youth in the city.  She is a past board member for the Georgia Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).  Bernath brings expertise in the areas of leadership development, consensus building, collaboration, effective communication, board development, and connecting organizations and community.

Bernath has been honored as a National School Boards Association Distinguished School Board Member, a Woman of Distinction by the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Children’s Legacy, a Woman of Achievement by the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, and a Leadership Sandy Springs Outstanding Alumni.  She also holds PTA Lifetime Membership and Volunteer of the Year awards.

Glover was Vice President of Client Success at Panorama Education, where she led a 45-person team to deliver services to over 600 clients and nearly 9 million students. Panorama helps schools improve student outcomes by collecting and analyzing student social emotional learning data and other feedback from students, teachers and families.  Prior to this, Glover spent five years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she served as the Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships and was the founding executive director of the Strategic Data Project, a national effort to transform the use of data in education.  Based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP grew from six to 37 partnerships and from serving 20 to over 110 Fellows under Glover’s leadership.  Before coming to Harvard, Glover founded and ran her own education policy consulting business wherein she worked extensively with superintendent and board leadership teams of some of the nation’s largest districts on governance, goal-setting, and planning.  She also worked with large education-focused foundations, including The Broad Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on implementing their core programs and identifying potential areas for investment.

Glover holds a Master’s in Public Affairs and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in political science from Tufts University. She is an intermediate Spanish speaker, an avid bike commuter, and mom of a teenager. 

Jenkins has served as president of the Plano Rotary Club, Plano ISD Education Foundation, and Plano Futures Foundation.  He has been an active member on the boards of the Plano Rotary Foundation, Plano Children’s Medical Clinic, Camp RYLA, Plano Citizens Police Academy Graduate and a mentor at Carlisle Elementary School.  Additionally, Jenkins was a member of CRSS’ Charter Class of Texas Fellows and held the distinction of Leadership TASB Master Trustee.

Jenkins holds a Master of Business Administration in finance and a Bachelor of Arts in finance from Michigan State University. 

During his school board tenure spanning two decades, Ogden has been an active participant in a plan of action to build and sustain a governance team designed to promote academic achievement in one of the nation’s largest urban school districts.  His courage of conviction in the early 2000s as he and fellow board members pursued unitary status for Aldine ISD following a 40-year court-mandated desegregation order framed the next 10 years of his journey as a reform leader.  He has long been a proponent of governance by policy.  And his  unique perspective of the intricate challenges that school districts face in their determination to set high academic standards, build a framework for success, and then sustain achievement, positions him to lead by example and demonstrate student success as both an individual and corporate priority.  He is now a Governance Solutions trainer for the Center for Reform of School Systems.

A past president of Texas Association of School Boards, Ogden was appointed to the TASB board in December 1994 and elected at Delegate Assembly in September 1995. He also has served as president-elect, vice president, secretary-treasurer, and immediate past president of the organization.  Ogden was appointed to TASB’s Risk Management Fund board in May 2003 and continues as a director of that board today.  He is a graduate of the Charter Leadership TASB class and has served as a member of the Texas Learning Technology Group board, the TASB Legal Assistance Fund board, and has served as chair of the Lone Star Investment Pool and Texas School Cash Management Program boards.  He is active in TASB’s School Board Advocacy Network and participates in Delegate Assembly. In June 2012, Ogden was appointed by Houston Mayor Annise Parker as a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Sharpstown Management District.

Ogden retired as owner of Ogden Manufacturing and Machine, Inc., in 1996.  He received his Bachelor of Arts in communication and sociology in 1998 from Houston Baptist University, where he currently is the assistant vice president and director of foundations, denomination, and community relations.  While in school, Ogden was trained in intervention strategies and served as an interventionist for organizational conflicts.  He also was appointed to the state Tri-Partnership Initiative, which was designed to promote conflict resolution in school districts.  In 2002, Ogden wrote “Funding Your Vision Using Someone Else’s Money,” a step-by-step grant seeker’s guide in development of grant proposals.  Ogden’s work as a school board member and trainer for the Center for Reform of School Systems is supported by his wife, four adult children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

In 2001, he was named National Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators.  He also served as dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University, where he established the university’s Center for Excellence in Urban Education.  In addition, he has served as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  Paige is an active member of numerous boards, including the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, The Broad Foundation, the American College of Education, the New England College of Finance and Business, and the National Council on Economic Education’s Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

Paige holds a doctorate in health and physical education with a minor in education from Indiana University, a master’s degree in health and physical education from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Arts in health and physical education from Jackson State University.

With a philosophy that educational opportunities create great communities that prosper, Treviño has committed a half century to strengthening our country’s educational infrastructure and school board leadership.  Working with diverse populations from coast to coast, and from our southern to northern borders, it is this passion for commitment that makes Treviño an effective leader and one of the country’s leading trainers and teachers in the areas of effective school board governance, urban education, the politics of education, and the foundations of educational leadership.

Treviño has worked with major school systems across the United States and with diverse multicultural populations.  An experienced educator, Treviño has been a teacher at all levels and served as middle and high school principal and a central office administrator.  Treviño served on the Board of Trustees for the San Antonio Independent School District for 12 years, six of those as board president.  Under his leadership as president, the board was recognized nationally twice and awarded the distinction of “Texas Honor Board” for exemplary board governance.

A true visionary, Treviño founded the Bexar County School Board Coalition, which promotes excellence in education for all students by improving the governance and collaboration among the 17 independent countywide school districts.  The coalition was a first in the country’s eighth largest city.  Treviño’s focus was to develop a mechanism for school board members to collaborate through professional development and identify an effective governance process to improve the educational welfare of all public school students.

Treviño is a Senior Lecturer of educational leadership and policy studies for the University of Texas at San Antonio and was previously a lecturer at Trinity University. Treviño has been a resident faculty member for the Center for Reform of School Systems (CRSS) since 2002 and is a certified trainer in the Strategic Planning and DuPont Leadership Development Program.

Treviño holds a doctorate in educational administration from Texas A&M University and has participated in executive education programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Treviño’s business acumen is valued in many civic and community efforts focused on improving our city, our schools and generating innovative opportunities for the communities in which we live.  Treviño resides with his family of educators in San Antonio, Texas.

Turner draws on her experience of serving 12 years on the school board of Portland Public Schools, which is the largest school district in the Pacific Northwest. She was chairperson for three terms, and is proudest of her work that resulted in increased academic standards with a focus on instructional accountability and more effective family involvement.   As board member and president of the Oregon School Boards Association, she led the association’s proactive response to the state’s severe funding crises following passage of a property tax limitation and was involved in the development of Oregon’s comprehensive standards-based reform effort.

Following her local board service, Turner was the educational advocate in the Office of the Mayor for the City of Portland for seven years. As policy advisor, she was the liaison to local school districts and related education efforts to ensure that strong, successful public schools were a critical part of Portland’s viability. Turner coordinated regional planning efforts to respond to the education funding crisis; developed and monitored collaborative work with local civic and elected officials focusing on school success; and was part of a small team, led by the mayor, that successfully averted an impending strike by negotiating a settlement between the Portland school district and the Portland Association of Teachers.  Also for several years, she worked for the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS), where she supported work of local staff linking services of DHS with schools and community to more efficiently and effectively serve children and families.

Turner is certified as a professional facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators and is a trained mediator. She holds a Masters in Social Work degree from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in Ohio.