Daniel R. Venables

Daniel R. Venables is founder and Executive Director of the Center for Authentic PLCs, a research and consulting firm committed to assisting schools in building, leading, and sustaining authentic PLCs and in doing well the few important tasks in which authentic PLCs engage. (For a complete list of services offered, visit www.authenticPLCs.com)

Mr. Venables’ experiences in education as an award-winning classroom teacher, a speaker and consultant, and as a professional development coordinator with our nation’s 18th largest district, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, span thirty years. He holds a Master’s degree in mathematics from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and has spent 24 years as a classroom teacher in both public and independent schools in South Carolina, North Carolina and Connecticut, serving as a math department chair for eighteen of those years. In 1994, he was trained as a Math/Science Fellow with the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), where he began his experience with PLCs.

As those who have taken his workshops will attest, Mr. Venables’ presentation style is energetic, humorous, and intelligent. Whether presenting at national conferences or offering on-going, site-based assistance to individual schools, his lively and practical message is always well-received by educators wherever he goes. At the heart of it, he cares deeply for kids, their teachers, and the work authentic Professional Learning Communities can do to make a real impact in how much and how many kids learn. He can be reached at dvenables@authenticPLCs.com.