Board of Directors
Tammy Heflebower, Ed.D., has served as an award-winning classroom teacher, building leader, district leader, regional professional development director, and national and international trainer. She has also been an adjunct professor of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at several universities, and a prominent member of statewide and national educational organizations.
Dr. Heflebower was the vice president and then senior scholar at Marzano Research prior to becoming the CEO of her own company, !nspire Inc: Education and Business Solutions. Tammy also specializes in powerful presentation and facilitation techniques—writing about them and sharing them world-wide.
Dr. Heflebower is sole author of the Presenting Perfected book series, lead author of A Teacher’s Guide to Standards-Based Learning and of an award-winning book titled, A School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading, co-author of Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools: The Next Step in PLCs, and Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills, as well as contributing author to over a dozen other books and publications, many of which have been translated into multiple languages and referenced internationally.
Dr. Heflebower holds a bachelor of arts from Hastings College where she was honored as Outstanding Young Alumna and her team was inducted into the athletic hall of fame. She has a master of arts from University of Nebraska at Omaha, and her educational administrative endorsement and doctorate from University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
