regional director of Costa and Kallick’s Institute for Habits of Mind and is
endorsed to train and support schools and others in Habits of Mind. He
offers consultancy and training services through his company Mindful by
Design: http://www.mindfulbydesign.com.
Sandra Bracehas been teaching since 1986. A graduate of UCLA with
a degree in performing arts, she has taught at every level of education
from kindergarten to college. During her professional teaching career,
she has been resident “artist in the schools” for more than a dozen schools
in California and Hawaii. She founded and administered a 501(c)3 non-
profit dance collective on the Big Island of Hawaii and taught music in
the public elementary schools there. She has served on the faculty at the
University of the Pacific Stockton, directed the dance program at the
award-winning Hamilton Performing Arts Magnet School in Stockton,
and now teaches full-time at the Waikiki School in special education. A
writer, composer, and choreographer as well, Brace has had dances, plays,
and operas produced in California and Hawaii.
Kristin Edlundis a curriculum specialist in the Tahoma School District
in Washington State and author of the middle school Habits of Mind
curriculum. She has written social studies units that integrate the Habits
of Mind and thinking skills, and she supports teachers in implementing
this curriculum in the classroom. Edlund teaches classes in integrated
curriculum, thinking skills, and Habits of Mind throughout western
Washington and has presented at numerous st ate and national confer-
ences. She worked as a teacher-librarian for 12 years before entering
administration. She can be reached at the Tahoma School District office
at [email protected].
Margaret Evans Gayleis executive director of the American Association
for Gifted Children at Duke University and a noted futurist and author.
She is project manager for Bright IDEA 2, a Jacob Javits Research grant
awarded to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
by the U.S. Department of Education. She was the associate director of
programs in early childhood and languages and chief consultant for media
and technology at NCDPI. She is coauthor of Schools of the Future
418 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind