Keynote speaker: Nancy Dana

 

Nancy Fichtman Dana, Ph.D., has spent 25 years studying and advocating for the process of practitioner inquiry as a mechanism for educator professional learning. She is currently a Professor of Education in the School of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education at the University of Florida.
Throughout her career, she has worked extensively in supporting schools, districts and universities in implementing powerful programs of job-embedded professional development through inquiry across the United States and in several countries, including China, South Korea, Belgium, Portugal, The Netherlands, Slovenia, and Estonia, where her text Digging Deeper into Action Research, was recently translated.
She has published ten books and over 80 articles and book chapters related to teachers’, teacher candidates’, administrators’, and teacher educators’ professional learning through inquiry, receiving several honors for these works that include the Association of Teacher Educator’s Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award and the National Staff Development Council (Learning Forward) Book of the Year Award.