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About
Us
Ribas
Associates is
a training and consulting company dedicated to the growth
and development of teachers and administrators. The goals
of Ribas Associates training programs are to
- maximize
student academic, personal and interpersonal growth by
increasing teacher and administrator effectiveness
- increase
teacher and administrator job satisfaction by helping
educators improve the performance and better meet the
needs of all students
Ribas
Associates consultant/trainers all
have over twenty years of teaching and/or administrative
experience in public and private schools. Their practical
background is supported by a comprehensive knowledge
of the latest findings in educational research. As
a result, all programs contain the current, proven
strategies of classroom teaching and administrator
practice.
Ribas
Publications is committed to the sale
of books that are useful to educators during their
day-to-day practice. Each publication is based on a
comprehensive review of the professional literature
in the areas it addresses. The publications are then
thoroughly reviewed by numerous educators in all levels
of Pre-K to 12 education. The recommended practices
have all been successfully used in schools prior to
appearing in our publications.
William
B. Ribas, Ph.D.
President, Ribas
Associates
 Dr.
Ribas has 25
years experience in pre-K–12 education. Dr.
Ribas consults to school districts on evaluating
and improving their supervision and evaluation
programs and also provides training and coaching
for building-based and central office administrators
in supervision and evaluation. Dr. Ribas also evaluates
new teacher mentor and induction programs in school
districts, having trained hundreds of mentor teachers
and teachers in their first two years in a district.
Dr.
Ribas taught elementary grades 2–5 and middle
school grades 6–8. During that time he served
as a teachers' association officer in the roles
of grievance chair, negotiations chair and vice
president. Dr. Ribas has been a curriculum coordinator,
a vice principal, principal and a director of pupil
personnel services. For seven years, he served
as the assistant superintendent for personnel for
the Brookline, Massachusetts, Public Schools with
responsibility for the supervision and evaluation
of teachers and administrators in grades Pre-K–12
and the recruitment, hiring, mentoring, and induction
of all newly hired teachers. Throughout his career,
Dr. Ribas personally evaluated or supervised the
evaluation of over a thousand teachers, administrators,
nurses, counselors, school librarians and other
professional support staff and paraprofessionals.
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Paul
Ash, Ph.D.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 Dr.
Paul Ash has a level of experience and expertise
in the area of the supervision and evaluation of
teachers that few can match. Paul has been a high
school teacher, the president of a local teachers'
association, a teachers' association chairperson
of contract negotiations, a school board member,
a director of personnel and staff development,
an assistant superintendent for personnel, finance
and administration and is presently the Superintendent
of the Lexington, MA, Public Schools. Paul is also
an adjunct faculty member at the Boston College
Graduate School of Education. Paul trains administrators
in effective supervision and evaluation and consults
to school districts on the development and improvement
of supervision and evaluation. Paul served on the
committee that wrote the Massachusetts Department
of Education Principles of Effective Teaching,
which are the performance standards used to evaluate
all Massachusetts public school teachers. Paul
recently served as the chair of the legislative
committee of the Massachusetts Association of School
Superintendents and until 2005 was a member of
The Governing Board of the American Association
of School Administrators.
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Jennifer
Antos Deane, Ph.D.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 Jenny
Deane has a Ph.D. from Boston College
in Curriculum and Instruction with
an emphasis on math and literacy
education in the elementary and
middle school classroom. She was
a teacher in Braintree, MA, where
she was chosen as Teacher of the
Year. She was also a classroom
teacher in the North Reading, MA,
and Needham, MA, Public Schools.
She presently works as a mathematics
resource teacher in the Needham
Public Schools. Jenny has been
influential in developing materials
and training teachers to extend
and remediate mathematics teaching.
She also assists teachers with
integrating mathematics and literacy.
Her publications include the article "Daily
Journals Connect Mathematics to
Real Life Mathematics Teaching
in the Middle School," the Journal
of Mathematics Teaching in the
Middle School, and she is
a co-author of the book, Instructional
Practices That Maximize Student
Achievement: For Teachers, by Teachers, in
which her particular areas of focus
are differentiated instruction,
mathematics specific pedagogy and
literacy-specific pedagogy.
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Elayne
Gumlaw, M.Ed.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 Elayne
has 30 years of experience in teaching and administration.
She has taught at both the elementary and middle
school levels and has also served as English Department
Chair and Team Leader. Her administrative experiences
include positions as middle school Vice Principal
and elementary Principal, and currently, she is
the pre-K to 12 Director of Curriculum for the
West Springfield Public Schools. Elayne also serves
on the Westfield State College Steering Committee
for the CENTER for Teacher Development. Elayne’s
expertise includes brain-based instructional strategies,
application of graphic facilitation in meeting
planning, curriculum mapping, teaching in the standards-based
classroom and strength-based coaching. She has
facilitated numerous teachers’ workshops
on topics such as positive classroom management,
effective teaching, transitioning to middle schooling,
and curriculum mapping.
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Deborah
Mercer, M.S.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 Deborah
has 23 years of teaching and administrative experience
that spans pre-school to grade eight. She has been
a classroom teacher in the Harvard University Business
School Pre-School in Cambridge, MA, the Dalton School
in New York City, and the Brookline Public Schools
in Brookline, MA. She has also worked as a private
tutor specializing in language arts and mathematics
remediation and extension. Deborah has served as
a district-wide coordinator of programs for the gifted
and talented and as a resource teacher for regular
classroom teachers and students in the area of gifted
and talented education. In these roles, she coached
teachers in the use of differentiated instruction
to effectively meet the needs of the highest performing
and lowest performing students in the classroom.
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Marilyn
Gigliotti, Ed.D.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 With
over 30 years of experience in grades pre-K to12 education,
Marilyn Gigliotti has worked in urban and suburban school
districts in several capacities. She has taught at the elementary
and middle school levels. She was a principal for 7 years
and an assistant superintendent for 7 years. In her various
roles, she has led curriculum-development teams, provided
professional development for teachers at all levels, worked
closely with Departments of Education at the state level,
analyzed district assessment data for use in improving instruction
and created supervision and evaluation documents for teachers
and administrators. Marilyn earned her Master’s and
Doctorate in Educational Leadership with an emphasis on professional
development and teacher leadership. Marilyn is also a Visiting
Professor at Salem State College, where she teaches courses
in Literacy and Educational Leadership.
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Scott
Seider,
Ed.D.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 Scott
Seider is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Teaching
at Boston University. He has also worked as a high school
English teacher and administrator in the Westwood, MA, and
Boston Public Schools, giving him extensive experience in
urban and suburban schools. Scott earned his bachelor,
master and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, where
he trained under Dr. Howard Gardner. His research focuses
on the development of social responsibility in adolescence
and emerging adulthood, and his work has been published in
numerous academic journals that include the Journal of
Adolescent Research, Journal of Civic Commitment and Journal
of College & Character. Scott is also a co-author of
Instructional Practices that Maximize Student
Achievement: For Teachers, By Teachers, and he
continues to work with school districts training educators
in effective classroom management, creating a cognitive
context for learning and other aspects of brain-based
teaching, and teaching in extended time blocks.
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Linda
E. Denault, Ed.D.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 With
over thirty years in public education, Linda
Denault has a wealth of experience as an administrator
and teacher. Most recently, Linda served as Superintendent
of the Palmer Public Schools. In her career she
has also been a pre-K to 12 Curriculum Coordinator,
School Principal, Assistant Principal, Reading
Supervisor, Reading Teacher and Classroom Teacher.
In addition, Linda has served on the faculties
of the education departments of Worcester State
College and Fitchburg State College, where she
worked at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels. In these positions, she was actively
involved in work with urban schools in Worcester,
MA. Presently, she is a professor in the education
department of Becker College in Worcester. Linda
earned her doctorate in educational research,
policy and administration from the University
of Massachusetts-Amherst, where her research
involved the effect of persistence in group/looping
on student achievement. Her special areas of
interest include instructional leadership, strategic
planning, data-based decision making and building
communities of learners.
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William
Conners, Ph.D.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 Dr. William Conners
has over thirty years’ experience
as a teacher and administrator. His central office experiences
include superintendent in three different districts. During
these years he served as the chair of the Technology Committee
for the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.
He was also assistant superintendent for human resources
in a large school district in which he was responsible for
the recruitment and hiring of all staff and for bargaining
and labor relations with thirteen bargaining units. Dr. Conners
has also served as administrator for Pre-K to 12 special
education. Prior to entering administration, he was a school
adjustment counselor and school psychologist working with
teachers and students in all grades pre-school through high
school. He was a teacher of special education working with
students at both the elementary and middle school levels.
Dr. Conners founded a company that trained educators in strategies
to meet the needs of all students within the regular classroom.
Dr. Conners has a masters degree, CAES, and doctorate from
Boston College. Prior to attending Boston College, he received
a BA from Maryglade College in Michigan and completed a year
of graduate study at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.
Dr. Conners presently trains teachers and administrators
in effective teaching practices. He also trains administrators
in the techniques of effective supervision and evaluation.
His consulting to school districts includes assessing and
developing district technology plans, effective human resources
practices, developing supervision and evaluation documents,
and strategic planning.
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Sheryl Wigdor, M.Ed.
Consultant,
Ribas Associates
 Sheryl
has 34 years of teaching experience at the
elementary, middle school, and high school levels.
Her education includes a B.S. in Elementary
Education, an M.Ed. in Mathematics Education, and
significant post-graduate work in computer
education, psychology, and
curriculum design. Most recently Sheryl has
worked as a high school mathematics teacher. She
has written standards-based curriculum documents
and developed accompanying assessment tools. She
served as chairperson on a NEASC committee
evaluating administrative effectiveness. Sheryl
has been a mentor teacher and peer coach. Her
coaching included serving as a model teacher for
effective classroom management. In this role
other high school teachers observed her teaching
to see the effective implementation of current
practices in classroom management. During her
middle school years, Sheryl took part in team
teaching, and designed and implemented a remedial
summer school program. In the community, she has
been a board member of BEST (an educational
foundation), director of a Museum of Science
outreach enrichment program, liaison to Invensys
Corporation for a “Women in Technology”
engineering program, guest lecturer at Boston
University, and a mathematics/SAT/MCAS/GED tutor.
In addition to her work with Ribas Associates,
Sheryl serves as an Instructional Consultant for
the Performance Review Program for Initial
Licensure.
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Westwood, MA 02090 USA
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Updated 09-29-08
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