Public Consulting Group Employee Review - Mark Tornow

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    Mark Tornow                                                             EDUCATION
                                                                            Mr. Tornow earned a Master of Education in Educational
    A field associate with PCG Education, Mr. Tornow works with             Administration at Concordia University, Irvine, California. He
    the firm’s education content consulting team on data services,          received his Bachelor of Science in Education from Concordia
    instructional leadership, and program evaluation and improvement        Teachers College (now University) Seward, NE.
    projects. He currently works with the Tennessee Academic
    Specialists Program as Director of Special Projects, as well as         PUBLICATIONS
    the Florida Rural Turnaround Leadership and NJ SMART data
    professional development projects. He has more than 30 years            Geier, R., Smith, S., & Tornow, M. (2012). District data teams:
    of experience working and teaching in the education field at the        A leadership structure for improving student achievement. A
    elementary and secondary levels.                                        PCG Education White Paper. Portsmouth, NH: Public Consulting
                                                                            Group. Available online: http://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/
                                                                            education/library/index.html.
    EXPERTISE
                                                                            Tornow, M. (2011). Next steps in using data for school
      •	 Educational data use
                                                                            improvement. Presentation at the Tennessee Academic Specialists
      •	 School leadership
                                                                            Program quarterly meeting, Nashville, TN.
      •	 Teacher professional development
      •	 School/district program evaluation and planning                    Tornow, M. (2011). Effective use of data to drive school
                                                                            improvement. Presentation at the Florida Reading Association
    EXPERIENCE                                                              Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.

    Prior to joining PCG Education, Mark served as an elementary
    principal near Nashville, Tennessee. Under his leadership, the
    school was recognized by U.S. Department of Education as a
    No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School in 2006 because of its
                                                                                   To learn more about Mark Tornow or other PCG
    significant improvement in student achievement, despite a high                 Education Subject Matter Experts, contact us at
    student poverty rate. Mark also served as an executive director of             pcgeducation@pcgus.com or 1-800-210-6113
    a non-profit educational organization and was a program manager
    with the Tennessee Department of Education in the Division of
    Assessment and Evaluation. Prior to that, he served as a principal,
    assistant principal, teacher, and coach in schools spanning
    elementary and high school settings.




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