BEV ENGEL
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Education & Organization Development Consultant
215 High Street, Unit 102, South Portland, Maine 04106
(207)
(207) 767-0701
Consulting to Programs Already Using Focused Portfolios™
Bev Engel is a consultant and teacher of Early Childhood Education and Organization Development. Drawing on principles derived from both Early Childhood Education and the field of Organization Development, Bev offers learning programs, leadership coaching, and facilitation to organizations seeking to enhance the quality of existing services for young children and their families.
The scope of consultation services includes these areas of Consulting Specialization:
- Leadership strategy and coaching
- Implementing planned change and quality enhancement initiatives
- Articulating statements of philosophy/mission/vision
- Curriculum design, implementation and improvement
- Learning and using portfolio assessment systems
- Moving to Best Practices
- Addressing organizational climate and morale
All consulting services are tailored to the specific needs of each educational community.
Bev has worked extensively with program leaders and administrators to strengthen and enhance their leadership effectiveness in support of change within their organizations.
The current emphasis on accountability taps into Bev’s longstanding experience that has focused on helping Leaders learn new skills and improve existing methods for individualizing staff supervision and evaluation. Having co-developed a systematic approach to portfolio collection, she has helped administrators and teachers understand the many ways in which careful and thorough documentation of children’s learning can also be the spring board and the catalyst for addressing their ongoing professional development. Long-term clients who have done in-depth work with Bev, have experienced first-hand that a comprehensive portfolio system can be a catalyst for:
- improving Family/Teacher communication,
- meeting criteria for National accreditation,
- and/or incorporating State School Readiness Performance Standards
any of which can result in overall program improvement.
Bev was a tenured faculty member of the Early Childhood Education Department at Vanier College in Montreal, where she taught early childhood curriculum design and implementation and supervised students in fieldwork practice. She has been a full time consultant to both educational and business organizations since moving to Maine in 1992
Bev holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education from Sir George Williams University (Montreal), a Master of Arts in Organization Development and Leadership from Goddard College (Vermont) and a Graduate Diploma in College Teaching from McGill University (Montreal). She has done advanced training in Human Interaction and Conflict Management and is certified in the administration and application of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. She was the 2001 recipient of the Montreal-based Bothwell/Smith Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Early Childhood Education.
PUBLICATIONS:
Focused PortfoliosTM : A Complete Assessment for the Young Child (with Gaye Gronlund), Redleaf
Press, 2001.
Moving Away from a Quick-Fix Mentality to Systematic Professional Development, with Kay Albrecht. NAEYC, Young Children, July 2007.
Collaborative Supervision: Helping Teachers Increase Competence and Take Ownership for Professional Development, Professional
Connections, National Association of Child care Professionals, Volume 11, Issue 53, 2008.
- Sustained help in implementing a center-wide authentic performance assessment system
- A leadership workshop explaining how to use children's portfolios as a professional development tool
- A long-term project to articulate an in-depth center philosophy statement and the accompanying classroom practices to support it
- A 2-day Leadership Institute on Collaborative Supervision and Situational Leadership