Linda Gibson FletcherDr. Gibson Fletcher received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Dayton in Educational Leadership. She is noted for her successfully creating environments which enable students who are typically labeled At Risk and Academically Challenged to thrve because of teacher empowerment. During her tenure as a principal and superintendent, Dr. Gibson Fletcher presented extensively on Direct Instruction. She was able to structurally and statistically improve achievement scores of low-income impoverished students in buildings and districts on standardized and state test. Because of her success, she was enlisted to be the first director/principal of the Millennium Community school in 1999 and key part of her work was evaluation, hiring staff and personnel and the delineation of academic programs and training of staff because of her educational expertise and leadership ability she set a strong foundation and the school is one of two schools remaining after the opening of 26 schools in 1999. Dr. Gibson Fletcher has worked in districts across the US with a vengeance to weed out and change the belief that students of color could not perform at the same level as their counterparts. She's communicated and demonstrated how to seamlessly implement and correlate all programs across all disciplines. Her career in education has been as a change agent she continues to use your skills at the state level by serving on the District Review Team, in the area of Leadership and Curriculum, for The Ohio Department of Education, she is an adjunct professor for Cappella University, where she teaches principal and leadership courses. She tutors throughout the year children in preparation for kindergarten and intervention for reading. In 2020, she wrote and published three children's books: Get Smart, Believe, Doc's House, and she co-authored We Act Safely with her husband Roosevelt Fletcher. Dr. Gibson Fletcher formed a non-profit organization in 2020 called Inspire 2 Teach 1, to ensure that vulnerable and at-risk youth populations have access to critical information and resources that could increase their opportunities in the fields of education, the arts, finance, health, and wellness. She believes that people matter, and we make a difference, and we should be the first to love and to care. Read More Read Less