Grace Sammon, president and founder of GMS Partners, Inc, is an educator, school reformer, consultant, "coach", speaker, and internationally recognized author. Grace has spent nearly 20 years working in one of the United States toughest institutions, the American high school. She has inspired change in schools, districts and government organizations nationally through her upbeat advice and sound, practical recommendations.
She has established GMS Partners as an organization dedicated to enhancing school communities through a focus on vision, alignment of resources, planning, coaching, professional development, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Under Grace's leadership, GMS Partners Inc. has worked in 32 states across the nation with a focus on whole school improvement. She is the Co-Founding Director of the National Career Academy Coalition (NCAC).
Grace has authored Battling the Hamster WheelTM: Strategies for Making High School Reform Work and the book and CDROM Tool Kit Creating and Sustaining Small Learning Communities: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating and Sustaining Small Learning Communities, eight manuals on school-to career transition, and articles on organizational change, school partnerships and staff development. She created Metro MANIA: The Great Train Ride Through Washington a board and street experience game to facilitate student use of public transportation while they gain an appreciation for the employment and cultural offerings of the Nation's Capitol. She also authored five integrated curricular pieces for use in middle schools and a teen pregnancy prevention curriculum and training manual.
She earned her Master's Degree in Education at The Catholic University of America. Grace has 10 years experience in higher education administration; has served as an adjunct university professor, and a long-term substitute teacher. Her professional notes include: listings in Who's Who in American Education and being named Outstanding Business Person of the Year by Future Business Leaders of America. In the spring of 1996 she was appointed to the U.S. Secretary of Defense's Joint Civilian Orientation Council. E-mail: gsammon@verizon.net
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