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Jennifer Dickson
Jennifer Dickson is an educator and presenter with a passion for working with preK–5 educators to ensure all students learn at high levels. With more than 25 years of experience in public school education, she loves to work with teams all over the country to implement and improve professional learning community practices.
Jennifer Dickson
Jennifer Dickson is an educator and presenter with a passion for working with preK–5 educators to ensure all students learn at high levels. She is also an advocate for early childhood education and early intervention for learners as young as three and four years old. With more than 25 years of experience in public school education as a teacher, principal, and central office administrator, she loves to work with teams all over the country to implement and improve professional learning community (PLC) practices. She most recently served as director of early childhood in Duncanville, Texas.
Jennifer’s educational career has been spent mostly in the Title 1 setting, serving at-risk students both as an early childhood and elementary administrator, as well as an elementary classroom teacher. She specializes in building teacher capacity and collaborative teams in the elementary and early childhood setting to ensure not just academic growth for all learners but also social and emotional development. She has a passion for coaching principals and guiding leadership teams to make data-driven decisions to ensure academic growth.
Under Jennifer’s leadership as principal, Pierce Early Childhood School in Irving ISD earned the Model PLC at Work® designation in 2019. Pierce ECS was one of the first early childhood schools in the nation and the first early childhood school in the state of Texas to be named a Model PLC at Work school.
Jennifer completed her undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Baptist University and received her master’s degree in educational administration from the University of North Texas. She holds Texas Principal, Elementary Self-Contained 1–8 and English as a Second Language certifications.
PLC at Work®
PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.
Presentations by Jennifer Dickson
- PLC: Living in the Process
- Collaborative Teams in Early Childhood
- The Power of Collaborative Teams: A PLC Overview
- Team Collaboration and CFA Next Steps
- Guiding Coalitions: Honest Discussions and Current Realities
