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Doreen Marvin brings extensive experience working with education, healthcare, and communities. Ms. Marvin is trained in strategic planning, creative planning, service delivery design, business strategy framework, and systems approaches to organizational development. Doreen has supported strategic design and planning for education, community-based organization, non-profit organizations, and health focused organizations. Specifically, Ms. Marvin has facilitated and assisted many education service agencies, school districts, and community-based groups in design, strategic planning, long-range planning, goal setting, communication, program design, and developing standards of operations In addition, Ms. Marvin has worked with school districts to develop and test their teacher and administrator evaluation. Of note is her ability to lead a team and to successfully execute a project, meeting deadlines and deliverables. Doreen has been trained in principled negotiation and conflict management strategies. She is praised for her ability to facilitate difficult conversations and to assist groups to come to agreements. She has strong project management skills and has served as an executive coach.

She consulted with or coordinated the development and start-up of 12 magnet and public schools of choice, including serving as the educational consultant through the design and construction phases. These include innovative schools for children ages pre-kindergarten to grade 12 serving over 5000 students annually. Doreen has worked with school districts to define educational pathways with the goal of equity, social justice, school integration, college and career readiness, and curriculum alignment. She consults with the National Institute for Magnet School Leadership and technical assistance service of Magnet Schools of America. Furthermore, Ms. Marvin has consulted with school districts in California, Iowa, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Connecticut. Doreen partners with the Elam Leadership Institute and Dr. Donna Elam to bring turnkey leadership services regarding Cultural Competence, Equity, and Inclusion to school districts and communities. She partners with PKR, Inc. to support education service agencies with design, planning, and business strategy.

Doreen has worked with underperforming schools to bring about systemic improvements. Ms. Marvin has served as project director for federally funded grant programs with extensive evaluation components. Ms. Marvin has trained community programs and pre-k to 12 educators with content related to cultural competence, leveraging leadership skills for improving student outcomes, building organizational culture, social curriculums, and supervision and evaluation. During her long tenure at LEARN, a regional education service center in CT, Ms. Marvin served as the Director of Development, which included research, innovation, and strategy.

Ms. Marvin has presented at conferences for Association of Education Service Agencies (AESA), Magnet Schools of America, South Carolina Department of Education, and the US Department of Education. Ms. Marvin serves as a voting Past President of Magnet Schools of America. She is also a member of the AESA Foundation Board.

Heidi Targee is a magnet school leader and educator who has worked more than 25 years with schools and districts throughout the United States. She has held K-14 teaching and leadership positions in Florida, New York, Rhode Island and Virginia and is a consultant for Magnet Schools of America’s National Institute of Magnet School Leadership (NIMSL).

Her curriculum work includes authoring, facilitating, mapping and coaching in: Art and Design, STEM and STEAM, K-12 Transdisciplinary Units and Best Practices in Teaching and Learning including transformative technology integration.

She is an ardent collaborator and passionate about working with others to build school cultures and develop innovative theme-based programs to deeply engage students, staff, families and community partners and to build collective efficacy to benefit ALL learners.

She was recently awarded the Space Coast’s WID STEM Star Award for her “dedication and tireless support of STEM education." Heidi has a B.S. in Art & Spanish from James Madison University and a Master of Arts in Teaching in Art + Design from Rhode Island School of Design.

Heidi is also a STEAM practitioner - she is a fine art photographer and experienced darkroom printer - still enamored with the art, science and alchemy of chemical- based, gelatin silver photography with photos in collections in New York and Florida. Heidi lives on the Space Coast of Florida with her husband, extended family and a garage full of motorcycles.