Bonnie Bishop is a Professional Development Associate for The Leadership and Learning Center. Over the past several years, she has presented to teachers on regional as well as national levels and is recognized for her expertise in Balanced Literacy, Assessment, and Bridging the Academic Achievement Gap for English Learners. Her professional focus is working with teachers and administrators to improve student achievement.
Bonnie conducts highly motivational and interactive workshops that give teachers hands-on opportunities to improve classroom instruction and school-wide results through effective teaching strategies. The trainings and workshops that she conducts provide teachers with opportunities to reflect on their current practices and actively participate in structuring strategies to improve instruction that focuses on content standards, clearly focused objectives, and on-going assessments. Bonnie brings 33 years of successful teaching and administrative experience to her work with the Center.
In addition to her work with the Center, Bonnie is a program facilitator for California’s Long Beach Unified School District, winner of the Broad Award for the Best Urban School District in the country where she trains and coaches teachers. Bonnie is also an educational consultant for 21st Century Learning as well as the co-founder and director of the Center for Accelerated Learning, an educational research and development organization. The hallmark of all her work in education is the facilitation of increased student results and teacher efficacy.
Having worked extensively with students and their teachers in both Spain and California over the past 18 years, Bonnie has the experience needed to provide teachers with current strategies that work to improve results for students who are not only learning academic content, but also for students who are learning academic content in English as a second language.
Bonnie has presented at the following conferences and institutes:
- California Association of Bilingual Educators Conference
- National Association of Bilingual Educators, Philadelphia, PA
- Educational Leadership Conference Riverside, CA
- California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference, San Diego, CA
- National Association of Bilingual Educators Dual Immersion Conference
- New Teachers’ Institute, Long Beach, CA
- Leadership in Literacy, San Diego, CA
- Assessment as Learning, San Francisco, CA
- Balanced Literacy Conference, Houston, TX
Bonnie holds an M.A. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in Multicultural Education and Dual Language Development. She holds a B.A. degree in English and Education. Additionally, Bonnie is fully credentialed and holds a Cross-Cultural Language Acquisition Development certification.
Bonnie resides in Long Beach, California, but enjoys spending time in Mallorca, Spain and St. Antonin- Noble-Val, France where she delights in languages and cultural diversity. She enjoys reading, writing, and capturing moments through the lens of her camera.
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What Clients Say
“I want to thank you again for the inspirational training you provided for our staff and for me. We met yesterday as whole staff to debrief the training and everyone was pumped up and ready to implement your ideas. I can honestly say that this is the first time I have seen 100% of this staff so energized about a workshop. The best part is that our kids are going to be the beneficiaries of this.”
“I wanted to let you know how we pleased our staff was with the training provided by Bonnie (Bishop) on March 26th and 27th. Providing effective ELD for our students has been our major focus this year and Bonnie provided the staff with strategies that make sense and are easily done. Several of the staff have already implemented her ideas. After reading the evaluation forms the one thing that was commented on the most was how well Bonnie presented the material. The entire day was an ELD lesson and the teachers really responded well to this. I can honestly say that the training has been the best we have had since my tenure here as Principal.”
“Bonnie conducted a workshop on sheltered with a large group of my teachers. We were all very impressed and, quite frankly, relieved to finally have a plan for teaching our ever increasing number of ESL students. I have already had two gifted cluster teachers in this morning requesting to have ESL students assigned to their classrooms for the coming year (I had been spreading them out across the grade level) and I am looking at trying a ESL/gifted cluster model in one or two grades using the sheltered learning strategies that we learned from Bonnie.”
“Bonnie was inspiring and displayed heart-felt commitment to all participants.”
