Beth Dankert Sattes

President and Lead Consultant for Enthused Learning, an educational consulting firm located in Charleston, West Virginia.  She designs and facilitates high quality professional development for teachers and administrators.

 Among her experiences:

• Beth has trained thousands of teachers (k-12) across the country in Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking (QUILT), a nationally validated professional development program on effective questioning.   She and her colleague, Jackie Walsh, are featured in a six-video set, Questioning to Stimulate Thinking, produced by Video Journal in Education.

• Beth co-facilitated the opening sessions of the first two years of the Alabama Leadership Academy

• Beth has trained coaches hired by the state department of education (in three states) to better do the job of assisting schools in their efforts to improve

• With her colleague Jackie Walsh, Beth has trained trainers who have successfully led professional development in their schools and districts

• Beth has served on the faculty of the National Staff Development Council’s (NSDC) Academy for Staff Developers

She is co-author of

• Quality Questioning:  Research-Based Practice to Engage Every Learner, 2005

• QUILT Teacher Manual

• QUILT Trainer Guide

• Inside School Improvement, 2000, available from Edvantia.org

• Creating a High-Performance Learning Culture (a workshop for leadership teams; produced as a collaborative effort between the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and AEL, Inc.

Education:

• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,  BA 1970

• George Peabody College, Nashville, TN, MA 1975