As a private educational consultant for the past six years, Beatrice “Bea” McGarvey has a reputation for successfully consulting with educators throughout the United States and Canada in the areas of standards implementation, teaching and learning, leadership, and organizational development. Her knowledge and experience is vast, a result of the thirty-year career she enjoyed in Maine schools – as a classroom teacher, as a middle school counselor and administrator, and as a district and state leader, including serving as Executive Director of Education for the Portland Public Schools in Portland, Maine and as President of Maine ASCD. Her clients have included numerous state and national educational organizations and agencies and more than 100 schools or districts in the U.S and Canada.

Bea’s affiliation with Dr. Robert Marzano and Dr. Debra Pickering spans more than 10 years and includes implementing their research and practices in the classroom and at the school and district levels.

Currently, as a consultant for Marzano Research Laboratory, she leads school communities to become more student centered, focusing vital resources on strategies and processes with the potential to make a difference in student learning. Specifically, she teaches educators the concepts and strategies in: Dimensions of Learning, Classroom Instruction That Works, What Works in Schools, Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement, and Supervising Learning.

Bea received her B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Gorham State Teachers College and her M.Ed. degree in Counseling from the University of Southern Maine. Additionally, she is a faculty trainer for International ASCD and is co-author of the annual publication, The Future Is Now: Shifts and Trends That are Redefining Organizations, Careers, and Life and Total Leaders: a Leadership Curriculum, used by the Pennsylvania Leadership Development Consortium.

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