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Anisa Baker-Busby
Dr. Anisa Baker-Busby was appointed principal of Shirley Hills Elementary in July 2022. She has over 20 years of educational experience serving as a teacher and administrator, and her passion is to help schools build systems of support that ensure high levels of learning for all students.
Anisa Baker-Busby
Dr. Anisa Baker-Busby served as the principal of Lindsey Elementary since February 2016 and was appointed principal of Shirley Hills Elementary in July 2022. She has over 20 years of educational experience serving as an elementary teacher and administrator. Her passion is to help schools build systems of support for collaborative teams that will ensure high levels of learning for all students.
Dr. Baker-Busby thoroughly enjoys the challenge of working with teacher teams and leaders on using professional learning community (PLC) practices and assessments to improve learning outcomes for all students. She works closely with teachers and leaders to create collaborative teams focused on using data from assessments to make real-time instructional decisions and provide students with what they need. As an elementary principal, Dr. Baker-Busby helped teachers develop high-performing collaborative teams that embraced the PLC at Work® process. This helped teams keep a laser-like focus on the big ideas of a PLC: a focus on collaboration, a focus on learning, and a focus on results.
As a result, teams started creating common formative assessments and used the results to improve their teaching practices. Dr. Baker-Busby’s unwavering commitment to prioritizing the right work for all students led to both Lindsey Elementary and Shirley Hills Elementary being honored as National Model PLC at Work schools by Solution Tree, in recognition of their ongoing success in improving student achievement. In 2020, Lindsey Elementary was one of only 200 schools and districts in the US and Canada to receive this distinction. The effective implementation of the PLC at Work process has played a key role in improving student achievement.
Dr. Baker-Busby received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in elementary education from Alabama State University, her K–12 educational leadership certification from Albany State University, and her specialist degree and her doctoral degree in K–12 educational leadership from Argosy University. She was 2008–2009 Teacher of the Year for Miller Elementary school.
Assessment Collaborative
Assessment Collaborative experts have proven success in developing and implementing sustainable assessment practices that garner hope through achievement. Work with them to create assessment systems that provide accurate, meaningful, and actionable information to drive student learning.
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PLC at Work®
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RTI at Work™
RTI at Work experts focus on learning for all students and will empower you to build your own timely, targeted, and systematic intervention program. Work with them to implement a results-driven program that provides targeted instruction at all tiers of intervention.
Yes We Can!
Yes We Can! experts have proven success in improving outcomes for students with special needs. Work with them to develop collaborative partnerships in order to implement inclusive processes and programs that support every learner in your school community.
All Means All Institute: General and Special Educators Collaborating for Student Success
Tulsa, Oklahoma
July 21–23, 2025
