Nancy M. Doda, Ph.D.

Dr. Nancy Doda has been a middle school educator since she launched her career as a middle school Language Arts teacher at Lincoln Middle School in Gainesville, Florida. During her early years of teaching Nancy developed a keen understanding of and passion for the middle school concept. She quickly joined the National Middle School Movement in order to advocate for middle grades teachers and young adolescents. She completed her Masters and Ph.D. at the University of Florida specializing in Middle School Teacher Education.

In 1977, still a young teacher, Nancy delivered her first keynote to the North Carolina Middle School Associations' annual state conference - the first teacher every to keynote the conference. To this day she is one of the only individuals to keynote the National Middle School conference on three occasions. Nancy has since keynoted middle school conferences in every U.S. state, every Canadian province, Europe, and the Far East. She remains in high demand as a conference speaker and workshop leader.

During her career she has been a classroom teacher and team leader, a tenured professor in the Graduate School of Education at National-Louis University's Washington, DC campus; a Board member for the National Middle School Association; and a Charter member of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform. She taught sixth, seventh and eighth grade English and Reading; authored a column "Teacher to Teacher" in the Middle School Journal; and along with Dr. Tob Erb co-authored the book Team Organization: Promise-Practices and Possibilities, a National Education Association best seller. Though her work has been primarily in school settings, she was a featured speaker on the NBC's Today Show, and has conducted many forums with parents and other public interest groups.

Today, Nancy is a full time workshop leader, author and keynote speaker specializing in middle and high school education. She is currently president and founder of Teacher to Teacher, an educational consulting firm located in Brookfield, VT.

Education:
Ph.D. University of Florida, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

M.Ed. University of Florida, Middle School Education

B.A. Wake Forest University, English

Awards:
National Middle School Association, John Lounsbury Award 2001

New England League of Middle Schools Distinguished Service Award

Virginia Middle School Association, Distinguished Service Award

Sample Publications:
Transforming Ourselves: Transforming Schools

Treasure Chest: A Resource for Advisory

Team Organization: Promise, Practices, and Possibilities by N. Doda and T. Erb

Teacher to Teacher by N. Doda

Past Presentations:
1998 On growing up as a young adolescent NBC Today Show in New York, NY

1989 The immortality of influence National Middle School Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada

Grants:
PT3 - Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology, National-Louis University

NASSP/Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Research and Cohort-Facilitator

"Nancy Doda is a well known and highly regarded consultant in Middle Level Education. She is in great demand as a conference speaker and workshop leader throughout the U.S. and elsewhere across the globe. She began her career as a middle school teacher and since then has continued to act as a teacher advocate and helper in both her writings and presentations. Her passion for teaching, her love of children, and her commitment to the improvement of middle schools has made Nancy a kind of household name among middle school folk." -- Dr. John Lounsbury

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