Dale Mann, Ph.D., is the Managing Director of Interactive, Inc. and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University (Teachers College and the School for International & Public Affairs). Since 1985, he has concentrated in developing and evaluating the gains from e-learning, a field in which Dr. Mann has been identified as one of America's ten most influential leaders.
As a member of Columbia University's senior faculty for 30 years, he taught education policy analysis. He has written and edited four books including Policy Decision Making in Education and, Making Change Happen? He is the author of more than 100 articles about leadership and program improvement in various child-serving institutions. He chaired the Department of Educational Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Mann has been involved with school improvement since the 1960's when his Washington service included responsibility as Special Analyst for Education in the Executive Office of President Lyndon Johnson and work implementing the innovation/reform aspects of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Titles III and IV). He has advised the Secretary of Education and the Institute for Education Services on measurement issues for education technology outcomes.
He is the founding Chair of the International Congress for School Effectiveness, an organization with members from 66 countries dedicated to improving schooling for the neediest children.
Dale Mann has a Ph.D. in Politics and Education from Columbia University and a BA in Political Theory from the University of California at Berkeley.
Charol Shakeshaft is professor and chair of the Department of Education Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She has a Ph.D. and an M.S. from Texas A&M University and B.S. from the University of Nebraska. Dr. Shakeshaft’ graduate and post-graduate training is in research methodology. She teaches graduate courses in research design, gender equity, and technology. Since 1979, she has worked with graduate students, particularly women, helping to prepare them for leadership in school administration.
Dr. Shakeshaft has been studying equity in schools for a quarter of a century, documenting gendered practice in the classroom and in school administration. She is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of gender patterns in educational delivery and classroom interactions. She is widely published and her research in this area has received several national and state awards. She is the author of Women in Educational Administration (5th printing) and Sexual Abuse in Schools, scheduled for publication in 2008.
Her work on equity in schools has taken her into school systems across the United States, Canada and Europe where she has helped educators make schools more welcoming to females. Dr. Shakeshaft gives talks, presents workshops, evaluates programs and curriculum, and conducts gender audits. She serves as an expert witness and consultant in a number of legal proceedings on sexual harassment of students, and works with school districts to develop policies and practices that decrease sexual harassment of all within the educational community.
Professor Shakeshaft has completed a number of evaluations for schools including gender audits, technology impact studies, curriculum impact studies, cost benefit analyses, and intervention outcomes analyses. The research for her most recent book was funded by the U.S. Department of Education and was a multi-year analysis of peer harassment in eight Long Island school districts.
For the US Department of Education, Dr. Shakeshaft completed a 2005 Congressionally-mandated national analysis of the extent, consequences and possible remedies for educator sexual abuse of students.
Dr. Shakeshaft has recently completed three large-scale studies of the impact of technology on student achievement. She was also the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation on a multi-year project to increase the achievement of low-income students of color in science and mathematics.
Ms. Tinsley has a wide range of experience with research methodology, analysis and statistics. She performs research activities, statistical analysis and project management for Interactive, Inc. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Christopher Newport University and a Master of Science in Experimental Psychology from the University of Memphis.
Mr. Atwater is an advanced doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University and is expected to defend his Ph.D. dissertation, Faculty Attitudes towards College Athletics and the Academic Competency of Student-Athletes at a NCAA Division-I Institution, in the Spring of 2010. He has a Masters of Science Degree in Sport Leadership from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Atwater is a graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
Ms. Diggs has a wide range of management and financial experience. She currently manages Interactive Inc's Virgina office and oversees all contracts and projects.