 Hi!
I am Barry Sweeny, a mentoring and coaching consultant, planner,
author, trainer, and program evaluator.
Here is some information about my wide background,
experiences, and areas of expertise.
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- I hope I can put my expertise to work
for you.
 26 W 413 Grand
Avenue, Wheaton, Illinois 60187
- Phone - 630-668-2605
My e-mail is
sweenyb@sbcglobal.net
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CURRENTLY
- President, Best Practice Resources, Inc. an
educational consulting firm in Wheaton, Illinois. I have worked
as a consultant, facilitator& trainer with hundreds of school
districts, professional associations & collaborative organizations,
colleges & universities, intermediate education agencies &
businesses, and as a presenter and keynoter at conferences throughout
the United States and Canada.
- Director Emeritus, Board of Directors, International
Mentoring Association, a group of persons from a wide range of
settings interested in expanding all applications of mentoring.
PAST EXPERIENCE
Manager of School & Program Development, Kane County
Regional Office of Education, Geneva, Illinois, serving 139 schools
in 9 districts from July 1995 to September 1998. My roles included
conducting teacher & administrative development workshops &
courses, consulting with schools & school districts in developing
& refining curriculum, standards, assessment, staff & organization
development, instructional & school improvement programs. I
wrote many grants, served as a grant reader, and managed many state
& federal grants.
Adjunct Instructor in Assessment, Aurora University/KCROE,
MAT/MAEL programs, 4 terms, Aurora Illinois
Staff Development Program Coordinator, DuPage-Kane Education
Service Center, Lombard, Illinois, serving 349 schools in 53 districts
1992 to 1995. My roles included conducting hundreds of teacher &
administrative workshops, consulting in curriculum, assessment,
staff & organizational development, instructional & school
improvement programs. I wrote many competitive and non-competitive
grants, was a grant reader, and managed several million $ of grants
each year.
Staff Development Specialist, Coordinator of the Mentor
& Guide Programs, the District 200 Career Ladder, & school
improvement consultant, half-time for 4 years, Wheaton-Warrenville
School District, Wheaton, IL
Past President & Board of Trustees, Illinois Staff Development
Council, serving on the ISDC Board of Directors 1990-95
Co-Founder & Executive Board Member, The Mentoring Leadership
& Resource Network, an ASCD network begun in 1991, serving members
& assisting mentoring programs in most of the United States
& many other countries around the world.
Teacher, art & science, grades 6-12 for 22 years, most
recently at Wheaton School District 200 in Wheaton Illinois.
Salesman, Owens Corning Fiberglas, Skokie, IL, seeking architectual
specification of company products in new construction, and outside
sales to building & roofing contractors and to retail home supply
businesses.
EDUCATION
- B.S. in Ed. & M. A. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
IL
- A.B.D. in the Ed.D. program in Curriculum, Staff Development,
Instruction & Administration, 51 hours completed, Northern
IL. Univ, DeKalb, IL
- Illinois Type 75 General Supervisory Certificate
- Elementary Principal Internship & Illinois Type 75 Administrative
Certificate
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- "Award of Recognition- Teacher, 1989 "Those Who Excel",
by the Illinois State Board of Education
- "1995 - Award of Commendation", for Service to Illinois
Educators, Illinois State Board of Education
AUTHOR
8 books & dozens of articles on mentoring, peer coaching, authentic
assessment, staff development, and school improvement.
For example, I recently wrote:
- the Facilitator's Guide and was the content consultant for ASCD's
new 2 tape video set "Mentoring to Improve Schools",
released in April 1999
- "Quality Mentoring for Novice Teachers", co-author
3 chapters, Assn of Teacher Educators & KDP, Feb. 2000
- the book "Leading the Teacher Induction & Mentoring
Program" published originally in October 2000 by Skylight
Professional Development, the purchased and reissued in 2008 as
a vastly improved second edition by Corwin
Press.
Other Publications:
- "Mentoring New Teachers" a video training set &
web-based course, Skylight Profess. Dev. Fall 2001
- Over 16 published articles on induction, mentoring, staff development,
assessment, and standards
- "Coaching Guidelines for the Alberta Public Service",
published by the Gov't. of Alberta, Canada
- "Advice for Beginning Educators", published Sept.
1999 by New Teacher Network, Montreal, Canada
Barry's writing has been cited by NASSP, NFIE/NEA and many
other professional organizations and authors
Barry has been a contributor to:
- NSDC "Academy Mentor Manual"
- "A Solid Foundation" by the South Carolina Center
for Teacher Recruitment,
- National Foundation for the Improvement of Education publication,
"Creating a Teacher Induction Program"
- "Tools for Professional Growth", Summer 1999, in ASCD
"Professional Development".
- Many other mentor resources.
Barry has also self-published over 120 papers on mentoring, coaching,
assessment, and school improvement.
APPOINTMENTS:
- National Commission on Novice Teacher Support: Policy, Progress
& Results, ATE & KDP, 4 years
- Teacher Induction Advisory Group I, II & III, Illinois
State Board of Education, research on state mandated programs
in the 50 United States, advise on induction state policy,
legislation & state-wide trainings
- Blue Ribbon Teacher Induction Panel, Career & Technical
Education National Dissemination Center, 2000
SPEAKER
Invited keynoter & presenter at numerous national, regional
& state conferences, including:
- Presenter at two day ASCD 2000 Preconference "Mentoring
New Teachers"
- Keynoter at two Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) national
conferences in Los Angeles and Atlanta
- Phi Delta Kappa speaker at chapter meetings
- Keynoter at Fall 2001 Illinois ATE conference
- Keynoter at State-Wide Mentoring and Induction Program Conference,
Virginia Department of Public Instruction
- Keynoter and trainer, State-Wide Mentoring Conference, Rhode
Island Department of Education
- Keynote speaker at New Mexico ASCD, state-wide training in "Induction
Program Development" for 55 school districts
- Over 180 presentations on mentoring for universities, service
centers, state boards of education & schools across North
America
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SAMPLE CLIENTS
Overall, Barry has worked with hundreds of mentoring programs world-wide
in school districts, businesses, industry, governments, not-for-profit
community-based agencies, and community colleges and universities.
A sample of these many clients includes:
* Virginia Deaprtment of Public Instruction, Keynote speaker
for a state-wide conference on induction and mentoring program models
and best practices.
* AT&T, Network Software Division (now Lucent Technologies),
a 3 month full time contract, needs assessment, program research
& design
* Parker Aerospace, consulting regarding training and program
design
* "Wireless Mentoring", Education Career Alternatives
Program, Fort Worth Texas, a federally funded grant to explore use
of Palm Pilots, email, online chat & discussion groups, online
forums, and other online resources for mentoring of alternative
certification interns.
* Arizona Public Service- Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station,
consulting regarding program design and later program and training
refinement, led 2 mentor trainings, helped design training that
the local program leaders held for all 300 staff engineers at the
plant, leading to creation of a true "mentoring culture".
* Tucson Arizona Public Schools, consulting in program
development for 8 different district mentoring programs, wrote proposals
for a framework to align all programs & create a unified mentor
training.
* World Relief, grant writing, program design as well as
mentor and manager training
* North Carolina Central University, faculty & student
mentoring
* Memphis Tennessee Public Schools, program design and consulting
* University of New Mexico, training in induction program
development, especially for smaller school districts in the state's
Title II Teacher Quality Grant Project.
* Educational Service Unit #3, consulting with the Center
and 3 school districts near Omaha Nebraska
* Benedictine Univ.& Illinois Math & Science Academy,
Alternative Certification Program, consult in program & training
design, train mentors
* TxBESS Induction Program at 2 Education Service Centers
in Austin (Region 13) & Corpus Christi (Region 2), Texas, consult
in program development, program evaluation & training for university,
school & ESC staff. Consultation and planning for grant writing
at Austin ESC Region13.
* TxBESS Induction Program at Region 9 Education Service Centers
in Wichita Falls, Texas, training district induction program teams,
speaker at administrative conference, and consult in program development.
* TxBESS Induction Program at Region XI Education Service Center
in Fort Worth, Texas - A two year contract totalling over 130 days
of work, including consulting in program development, program evaluation
& training for mentors, and university & ESC staff, mentoring
of mentors and program leaders.
* Rhode Island Department of Education, consult and facilitation
of meetings for development of state mentoring program standards
* Rhode Island ASCD, two state-wide training in mentoring
and mentor program development & evaluation,
* Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, mentor training
of teachers & administrators in Jewish day schools from all
over North, Central & South America
* Prince Georges County Public Schools in Maryland, design
and assist in implementation of their new induction program and
mentor training for 158 schools and 400 new mentors
* Missouri NEA, three state-wide mentor and new teacher
trainings
* Panhandle-South Plains Center for Profess. Dev. & Technology,
Lubbock, Texas. Consulting on school district & university teacher
development continuum and programs, research on mentoring, use of
distance learning technologies, developed pre-service mentoring
& training models, trained principals & preservice mentors
from 15 districts & teacher education supervisors at 4 universities.
* Prince William County Schools, Manasses, Virginia, Training
of Trainers in mentoring and coaching
* Bremen High School District 228, Midlothian, IL. Consult
on development & integration of their Mentoring, Induction,
Peer Coaching, & Collegial Evaluation Programs, advising on
contract renegotiations, provided coaching trainings, and continue
to consult on increasing the impact of their programs on teaching
and student learning.
* Alamance-Burlington Counties School System, North Carolina,
Keynoter, Mentoring Conference
* South Cook Intermediate Service Center, Chicago Heights, IL.
Consulting, develop a Regional Induction Program to service small
districts, trainings & for new teacher, mentors & induction
program leaders.
* University of South Dakota/School Districts- "Inclusion
Peer Mentoring Project", training regular & special educators
in use of mentoring & coaching strategies to support implementation
of inclusion staff dev.
* "Mentoring of Mentors", a 3 day training for
50 mentor managers, Fort Worth ISD, Ft. Worth, Texas
* "Increasing the Effectiveness of Mentors", training
site-based mentor leaders, Killeen ISD, Texas
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