Linda T. Inlay

                                                                                               Napa, Valley, CA

                                                                                             Work:  707.253.6813

                                                                                    E-mail:  linlay@nvusd.k12.ca.us

 

 

EDUCATION________________________________________________________

Bachelor of Arts                                Sociology, University of Hawaii, 1969.

Professional Diploma                      Curriculum and Instruction, University of Hawaii, 1972.

Master of Education                         Educational Foundations, University of Hawaii, 1995.

                                                            Thesis:  “The Transformation of Character through the

                                                                                    Implicit Curriculum”

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS__________________________________________

Director                                              The River School, a charter middle school, Napa Valley

                                                            Unified School District, 1996 to present.

 

GATE Resource Teacher                    4th-6th grades, Napa Valley Unified School District, 1993-1996.

 

Teacher                                               6th grade math, Suzanne Middle School, Walnut, California 1989-1993

Teacher                                               7th grade Language Arts, Kranz Intermediate School, El Monte, California, 1988-1989

 

Co-Founder, Teacher,                        Ho`ala School, Wahiawa, Hawaii, 1986-1988.

   Assistant Principal

 

Teacher and Assistant Principal       Our Lady of Sorrows School, Wahiawa, Hawaii, 1973-1986

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES__________________________________________

 

Member Student Services Committee, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1996-1998.

 

Presentations:

 

2001  National Conference of Charter Schools, Washington,

D.C.Co-presented with Sr. Joan Madden, founder of

The Ho`ala Educational Philosophy.

 

2003  North Coast Educational Summit, Humboldt State University,February

1/  A Systems Approach to the Design of School Culture and Curriculum;

2/ Organizing a Student-Centered Integrated Curriculum.

 

2003  California Network of Educational Charters Conference,  Increasing Student Capacity for Learning.

2003  National Middle Schools Association Conference, Atlanta, GA:  Student Empowerment Through The Implicit Curriculum

2004  Charter Voice  Conference, Building Students’ Character Skills.  Accompanied by two students who presented listening groups and peer mediation programs

2004 Charter Schools Association, Increasing Student Capacity to Learn:  Empowering Students to Find their Own Voices

 

2004 California League of Middle Schools,  Empowering Students through the Implicit Curriculum.  Presented with a panel of River School students.

 

2004 Character Education Partnership Forum, Houston, Texas. ListeningGroups

 

2005 Charter Schools Association Conference,

Best Practices: Teaching Tolerance/Character Education

 

2005 Character Education Partnership Forum, October

River School, National School of Character Winner

 

2006 North Coast Educational Summit, Humboldt State University

1/  How parents can support their child through the roller coaster years of middle school

2/  River School and the Ho`ala Educational Philosophy:  Iincreasing the capacity to learn by addressing the whole person.

 

2006 National Charter Schools Convention/California Charter Schools Association Conference:

1/  Increasing Students’ Capacity to Learn through the Formation of Character

2/ Collaborative Professional Learning Communities - The Benefits of Districts and Charter Schools Collaborating for School Improvement with John Glaser, superintendent of Napa Valley Unified School District, and Deb Wallace, Principal, Napa Valley Language Academy.

 

2007           2007  Character Education Partnership Forum

Ho`āla Educational Philosophy:  an “inside out” systems approach to developing character and increasing students’ capacity for academic success.

 

2008           2008 California Charter Schools Association Convention:

“Leading is about relationships, relationships, relationships”

 

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS  to River School

 

1998        Walton Family Foundation,

                              charter school start up grant             $111,257                                

 

1999        Charter Schools Accountability Initiative            $  22,497                    

 

2000        Walton Family Foundation, library grant             $ 55,119                                 

 

2002    Charter School Dissemination Grant                  $ 88,647.55                

 

      2003     First “Awakener Award for Innovation” awarded by Foundation for Learning to Linda Inlay

 

      2003     River School is selected as a California Distinguished School

  

2004          Recipient of Promising Practices Award by the Character Education Partnership for

Listening Groups

 

2005          River School is selected as one of the ten national winners of the National Schools of Character Award by the Character Education Partnership, www.character.org

 

      2006     River School is featured in the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s video training series,   “Teaching the Adolescent     Brain”

 

2008     Golden Bell Award by the California School Board Association for River School’s Implicit Curriculum, to be presented in December 2008.

 

2009     River School receives its second California Distinguished School Award.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS_____________________________________________________

 

            “Values, The Implicit Curriculum,” Educational Leadership, March 2003

 

            “A Safe School for the Roller Coaster Years,”  Educational Leadership, April 2005.

 

            “Orchestrating School Culture,”   online Educational Leadership, March 2008.