Marcia L. Tate

Marcia L. Tate

Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites series and Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning? Her latest two books are 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K–8 and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9–12. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.

Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.