Giselle O. Martin-Kniep (born 1956, died 2021) was an American educator, researcher, program evaluator and writer. According to her own

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page, she did her master's degree in International Development, doing her thesis field work in

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. She also gained a Ph.D. in education and political science at

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. After 13 years at

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, she moved to

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where she served on the faculty at

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. She was also with the

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and the

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. Later, she started and was president of her own company, Learner-Centered Initiatives. Also, she was CEO of Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change, previously called the Center for the Study of Expertise in Teaching and Learning, Martin-Kniep worked with hundreds of schools and districts nationally and internationally in the areas of

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, standards-based design, school improvement and

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. In the fall of 2021, she wrote of being diagnosed with acute

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Publications

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External links

Home page
at lciltd.org (last accessed on 16 March 2022).

References

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