Chief of Staff
Ahmes Askia, Ph.D. has a wealth of professional development experience having began her educational career in 1976 with Prescription Learning Corporation (later became Jostens Learning) as professional development and education consultant in Houston Independent School District.
During her 17-year tenure with Prescription Learning/Jostens Learning she became an Area Director. In this role she was responsible for developing training for 80 consultants (education and technical) and teachers in over three hundred schools. Dr. Askia has worked with teachers and administrators in Houston Independent School District, Dallas Independent School District, San Antonio Independent School District, San Francisco Unified, Atlanta Public Schools, Birmingham Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Schools, Memphis City Schools, Little Rock Public Schools, and many others.
Dr. Askia worked for 9 years with KA2Products in sales and curriculum design and development with an emphasis in critical thinking.
Concurrent to working with KA2Products, Dr. Askia facilitated the training of the Seven Laws of the Learner Seminars in Brevard County, Duvall County, and Fulton County.
In addition to being the Project Director for the Newark, New Jersey’s secondary project which includes the federally funded Striving Readers Grant , Dr. Askia became the Director of Professional Development for the National Urban Alliance in 2005 and is currently NUA Chief of Staff. The NUA was founded in 1989 with a vision of school reform based upon three beliefs: all children benefit from a focus on high intellectual performance; intelligence is modifiable, not fixed; and learning is influenced by an interplay of culture, language and cognition .
Ahmes Askia
a_askia@nuatc.org
From: 
(www.hotchalk.com):
A Conversation with Ahmes Askia
Ahmes Askia is Professional Development Director of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education in Syosset, NY. The NUA places mentors — teachers and university professors — in school districts to provide professional development activities for educators. READ MORE OR PDF
