Marcia Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her 30-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director. For the last 16 years, as CEO of Developing Minds Inc., she has presented workshops to over 500,000 educators on five continents. She is the author of eight bestsellers, including those books contained in the immensely popular Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain series. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best they have ever experienced since Dr. Tate models the 20 strategies in her books to actively engage her audiences.