Public Consulting Group Employee Review - Melvina

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    Melvina Phillips, Ed. D.

    EXPERTISE:                                                                      PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
    Adolescent Literacy, Response to Intervention (RtI), School                     Books
    Leadership, Systemic School Change                                              Irvin, J. Meltzer, J., Mickler, J., Phillips, M. & Dean, N. (2008). Meeting
    Melvina gained expertise in adolescent literacy while working as                the challenge of adolescent literacy: Practical ideas for literacy leaders.
    instructional leader at Discovery Middle School of Madison, Alabama.            International Reading Association: Newark, DE.
    Together with staff members, she designed a literacy initiative from the        Phillips, M. (2005). Creating a culture of literacy: A guide for middle
    latest research and from best literacy practices in the field. While working    and high school principals. National Association of Secondary School
    with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, she provided      Principals: Reston, VA.
    workshops and other literacy leadership opportunities to support school
    leaders across the nation. During her years spent in the field, Melvina has     Articles
    noted a dramatic increase in literacy focus at the middle and high school       Meltzer, J. & Phillips, M. (2008). Designing effective content-literacy
    level – a change from the prior notion that literacy was mainly in the realm    professional development. In Perspective by Project AdLIT-Advancing
    of elementary schools. Now, she notes, while there is still much work to be     Adolescent Literacy Instruction Together (http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit)
    done to embed literacy into instructional practices, educators understand       by The Ohio Resource Center. All rights reserved.
    that literacy must be at the center of all school improvement planning          Phillips, M. (2007). What’s a principal to do? Leading for Literacy: A
    efforts and that literacy instructional practices encourage learning of the     Compendium for Successful Leadership in Adolescent Literacy, 12-
    more complex content students get in middle and high school.                    15. Available online at: http://www.ohiorc.org/orc_documents/orc/
    As a member of the PCG Education team, Melvina’s education                      prodevelopment/documents/lfl_0207/lfl_compendium.pdf
    experiences have provided the opportunity to support efforts of the             Phillips, M. (2006). Literacy: A key factor for breakthrough status.
    Nashville and Charlotte PCG Education staffs to map current RtI practices       Principal Leadership. (June 2006)
    in Memphis City Schools and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to inform
                                                                                    Phillips, M. (2004). A community of writers. Principal Leadership, 5.
    the development of EDplan™, PCG Education’s RtI management system.
                                                                                    (33-37).
    She also provides literacy leadership support for state, district, and school
    leadership teams.                                                               Phillips, M. (2003). Going for broke: 100% literacy. Principal
                                                                                    Leadership, 3. (22-28).
    EXPERIENCE AND HONORS                                                           Phillips, M. (2002). Big brother and the national reading curriculum
    Melvina has been actively engaged with education since 1970. During             [Review of the book Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum].
    her career, she has served as classroom teacher, district coordinator,          NASSP Bulletin, 86. (70-73)
    school administrator, NASSP Literacy and Professional Development               Phillips, M. (2002). Middle schools capitalize on the reading/writing
    Practitioner, and PCG Senior Associate. Her rich educational                    connection. Michigan Middle School Journal, 27. 5-7.
    experiences provided the opportunity to work with other educators to
    plan innovative approaches for development of programs that have                Meltzer, J., Phillips, M., & Kutno, S. (2010). Practical ideas and
    resulted in increased student performance and achievement. Twice,               promising practices for effective district Response to Instruction/
    programs she coordinated were recognized by the U. S. Department of             Intervention (RtI) initiatives: Data use issues to consider. A PCG
    Education as Exemplary Programs, and while administrator at Discovery           Education White Paper. Boston: Public Consulting Group. Available
    Middle, the school was selected as an Alabama Reading Initiative                online: http://www.publicconsultinggroup.com
    Literacy Demonstration site. She received proclamations for innovative
    educational programs from two governors of the state of Alabama.
    Melvina’s personal interest and pride in her heritage and commitment
                                                                                      To learn more about Melvina Phillips or other PCG Education Subject
    to education led to opportunities to serve as a consultant to various
                                                                                      Matter Experts, contact us at pcgeducation@pcgus.com or
    organizations, including the Smithsonian’s American History Museum,
                                                                                      1-800-210-6113
    Early Works Museum, Burritt Museum, and DAR. She was honored to
    serve as Alabama’s delegate to the White House Conference on Indian
    Education in 1990.

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