Facilitators

FACILITATOR

Kim Bane is an international education consultant who works with schools across the globe to design and implement inclusive educational practices that support the needs of all learners. Kim brings experience, dedication, and passion to this work, having successfully served as the Director of Special Education in Boulder Valley School District and the Director of Teaching and Learning at the American International School in Chennai, India. Today, Kim works with international schools across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia to transform the learning experience for students, teachers, and school leaders. Through coaching and consulting, Kim supports school leaders as they strategically navigate this complex organizational change. She guides and provides direct instruction for teachers as they develop their understanding on the critical instructional components and approaches that support inclusive practices such as Universal Design for Learning, the Co-Instructional Cycle and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support that address the needs of the whole child.

FACILITATOR

With experience as a teacher, coach, and administrator, Jason Hicks is dedicated to supporting mission-driven organizations develop capacity as highly collaborative learning groups. Drawing on the ideas of leading organizational change theories, he successfully designs and facilitates processes which allow groups to move through the work while building upon their habits of collaboration and impacting student learning. Jason has effectively led, coached and/or consulted in the areas of strategic planning, accreditation, standards-based grading, service-learning, advisory, instructional coaching, Universal Design for Learning, and co-teaching.