Achievement Now! (ePub)

Dr. Donald J. Fielder has been an educator since 1968, with about 30 of those years spent in various administrative positions in Florida, Georgia, Utah, and Colorado. He has worked at the local district level, the regional level, the state level, and in the private sector. He started his career as a special education teacher and has served in a variety of administrative capacities in small, medium, and large districts and in rural, suburban and inner city systems. His public school career also involved serving for six years as superintendent of schools. Don was responsible for dramatic increases in student achievement, with students achieving at the highest levels of any district in the two states in which he served as superintendent. In addition, he was part of a team responsible for elevated student achievement in an inner city/suburban district that changed from a middle-class system to one where more than half of the students were on free or reduced-price lunch.Dr. Fielder, who received his doctoral degree from Vanderbilt University in 1989, has authored 14 articles in national journals and publications such as The American School Board Journal, The School Administrator, The Executive Educator, and Phi Delta Kappan as well as dozens of articles and columns for the print media. He has served as a regular columnist for two newspapers where he wrote on wide-ranging educational topics. He has written a book entitled The Leadership Teachings of Geronimo: How 19 Defeated 5000, and he has established a consulting company that specializes in leadership training to public and private organizations of all sizes. He has presented at numerous state, national, and international conferences on a wide variety of topics. Dr. Fielder has received numerous awards including The Gravity Breaking School District Award as part of the American Association of School Administrators' study on Preparing Schools and School Systems for the Twenty-First Century.

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