Barbara Ewing Cockroft Email and Phone Number

Barb joined SST9 as a school improvement consultant in March 2014. As such, she provides professional development and technical assistance in support of the Ohio Improvement Process, adolescent and assessment literacy and differentiated instructional practices. Barb has more than thirty-five years of classroom experience as a 7th and 8th grade language arts teacher on which to base her expertise, including 17 years of teaching reading and writing to gifted students. Additionally, Barb uses her passion for education to mentor both aspiring and experienced teachers. Furthermore, she taught the gifted masters’ cohort at Kent State University for teachers wishing to earn their K-12 gifted endorsement. She serves as an adjunct professor at Malone, Ashland, University of Akron and University of Dayton. Barb holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and Physical Education from Ashland College and a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Ashland University. She holds a permanent teaching license in the state of Ohio, is a National Board Certified Teacher, and has earned a K-12 Gifted Education Endorsement. She also is credentialed as an OTES evaluator, an Assessment Literacy trainer and a FIP (Formative Instructional Practices) specialist. She has been to Hong Kong six times where she has helped Model Schools set up formative assessment practices in the K-12 classroom, all content areas. She served as the lead trainer for the Hong Kong Study Group which came to Battelle for Kids each spring and fall to learn how to move the work forward as they built capacity and sustainability.She is a member of the Executive Committee of Leadership Stark County; a member of the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Education Committee; serves on the Ohio Board of the ASCD; serves as a member of the Women's Board of Aultman Hospital; and is a Past President of the Junior League of Stark County.

I am available to do inservices for school districts on various topics; among these: differentiated instruction, brain-based learning, common core state standards in ELA, assessment literacy, gifted education, and more. Retired from Lake Middle School in Hartville, OH in June 2010, where I had taught for 35 years.Serve as an external consultant for Battelle for Kids.

Secure full and part-time instructors to conduct graduate level courses and/or workshops for educators seeking to upgrade and/or renew their teaching license

Education Department

Recently retired language arts teacher (7th and 8th grade) reading, English, gifted learners at Lake Middle School in Hartville, OH. Last day was May 28, 2010.

Taught graduate level classes for educators wishing to receive their K-12 gifted endorsement

Taught workshops on differentiated instruction and brain-based learning to educators