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Janel Keating
Janel Keating is former superintendent of the White River School District in the state of Washington. She is a former elementary and middle school teacher, elementary principal, director of student learning, and deputy superintendent.
Janel Keating
Janel Keating is former superintendent of the White River School District in the state of Washington. An educator with more than 30 years of experience, she is a former elementary and middle school teacher, elementary principal, director of student learning, and deputy superintendent. During her time as principal of Mountain Meadow Elementary, the school became one of the highest-performing elementary schools in the state.
Janel is the recipient of the 2019 Robert J. Handy Most Effective Administrator Award in Washington. She was also named Principal of the Year in Pierce County, Washington, and received the 2013 Carroll College Alumni Academic Achievement Award. Janel is past president of the Washington State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
She earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Idaho and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Carroll College in Montana. Janel received a superintendent’s certificate from Seattle Pacific University.
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.
RTI at Work™
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Presentations by Janel Keating
- What Is the Work of Teams in a Professional Learning Community at Work®?
- Are the Kids Learning, and How Do We Know?
- Women in Leadership
- Work-Life Balance—Easy to Talk About, More Difficult to Achieve
- The Role of the Principal in a Professional Learning Community at Work®
- The Role of the District Office in a Professional Learning Community at Work®
- Building Shared Knowledge with a School Board in a Professional Learning Community at Work®
- From the Boardroom to the Classroom—Aligning the Work of Teams in a Professional Learning Community at Work®
- This Is Where It All Fits! From Standards to Assessments—Unit by Unit
- Bumps and Dangerous Detours along the Way while Doing the Work of a Professional Learning Community at Work®
- Loose Tight in a Professional Learning Community at Work®
- Stomping Out PLC Lite
- Singletons in a Professional Learning Community at Work®
- Creating a District Plan to Do the Work of a Professional Learning Community at Work®
“Janel was very knowledgeable and passionate about PLC. She really makes it possible to go back and implement many of these strategies to get more kids to learn more.”
“This was so motivating. Just what our district needed to begin a plan that will reform us on student learning.”
