CLASS Project Coaches
What is a CLASS Coach?
The CLASS Project Coach assists Chalkboard in the development, implementation, and refinement of the pilot implementation of the CLASS Project in Oregon school districts. They work collaboratively and cooperatively with Chalkboard staff, project consultants, and pilot school district staff.
Deborah Sommer
Deborah Sommer, Oregon’s Superintendent of the year in 2006, has a 37 year career in public education, mostly in Oregon. Sommer has taught at every level of schooling -- elementary, middle, secondary and at the university. She has been a teacher, staff development specialist, vice-principal, principal, curriculum director and school superintendent.
She has extensive experience in curriculum development, including power standards, curriculum mapping and curriculum audits. She is a specialist in relationship building and conflict resolution, including staff relationships, principal and staff issues, contract negotiations, building parent and community support for schools, boundary changes, bond measures and budgets.
Sommer holds a masters in education and a doctorate of education with emphasis on curriculum and instruction.
She lives in Newberg, Oregon.
Linda Borquist
Linda has a 32 year career in public education, mostly in Oregon. Borquist has taught at every level of schooling elementary, middle, secondary and at the university. She has been a teacher, vice-principal, principal, director of personnel, and associate superintendent for HR. In 2005, she was selected as Administrator of the Year in Beaverton.
She currently teaches administrative licensure classes for Lewis and Clark College in the areas of personnel and board relations, communication/public engagement, teacher evaluation/performance improvement, and ethics, policy, and the law. She is also the Central Oregon regional coordinator for Lewis and Clark College.
She has extensive experience in human resources, including negotiations/contracts, professional development, risk management, hiring, and personnel issues. She conducts superintendent searches for the Oregon School Boards Association and is a certified trainer in collaborative bargaining and in Charlotte Danielson's evaluation model.
Borquist holds a masters in education and a doctorate of education with emphasis in educational leadership and administration.
She lives in Sisters, Oregon.
