Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D.
Robert J. Garmston, Ed.D
Diane P. Zimmerman, Ph.D.
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Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D is an emeritus professor of education at California State University, Sacramento. He is cofounder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and cofounder, with Bob Garmston;, of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, an assistant superintendent for instruction and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents
Art has written and edited numerous books, including Techniques for Teaching Thinking; The School as a Home for the Mind; and Cognitive Coaching, with Bob Garmston. He is editor of Developing Minds: a Resource Book for Teaching Thinking and coeditor, with Rosemarie Liebmann of the Process as Content Trilogy, co-editor with Bena Kallick of Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind, Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum, and Dispositons: Reframing Teaching and Learning. His books have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. Active in many professional organizations, Art served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the national president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development from 1988 to 1989. In 2010, he received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Urban Alliance. |
Robert J. Garmston, Ed.D is an emeritus professor of educational administration at California State University, Sacramento, and co-developer of Cognitive Coaching with Dr. Art Costa. Formerly a classroom teacher, principal, director of instruction, and acting superintendent, he works as an educational consultant and is director of Facilitation Associates, a consulting firm specializing in leadership, learning, and personal and organizational development. He is co-developer and founder of the Center for Adaptive Schools with Bruce Wellman. The Center for Adaptive Schools develops organizational capacity for self-directed, sustainable improvement in student learning. He has made presentations and conducted workshops for teachers, administrators, and staff developers throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Bob has written and coauthored a number of books, including Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools, How to Make Presentations That Teach and Transform, and A Presenter’s Fieldbook: A Practical Guide. In 1999, the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) selected The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups, as book of the year. In that same year Bob was recognized by NSDC for his contributions to staff development. Second editions of the Presenter’s Fieldbook and Adaptive Schools were published in 2002 and 2004. His recent publications include I Don’t Do That Anymore: A Memoir of Awakening and Resilience (2011), Unlocking Group Potential for Improving Schools (2012), Lemons to Lemonade: Resolving Problems in Meetings, Workshops, and PLCs (2013). For several years he wrote a column on facilitating groups for the National Staff Development Council. His books have been translated into Arabic, Hebrew, and Italian. In addition to educational clients, he has worked with diverse groups, including police officers, probation officers, court and justice systems, utilities districts, the United States Air Force, and the World Health Organization. |
Diane P. Zimmerman, PhD is a writer and consultant focusing on entrepreneurial learning, leadership development, and the promotion of cognitive capital. She recently retired as a superintendent of schools after a 36-year career in education where she perfected her skills in facilitation, conflict management, and leadership development. In 1998 she obtained her PhD in Human and Organizational Development from the Fielding Graduate Institute.
Originally trained as a speech therapist, Diane worked as a teacher, speech therapist, program manager, and assistant director of special education in Fairfield, California. She subsequently became a principal in Davis, California, and served consecutively in two schools over 13 years before being promoted to assistant superintendent for human resources. In 2002, she began a 9-year appointment as a superintendent of Old Adobe School Union School District, a small suburban elementary school district in Petaluma, California. She prides herself in having moved the district’s teachers from contentious union interactions to productive, interest-based relations. Together they set the highest standards possible for their school district. Diane has been active in professional development throughout her career. While obtaining her administrative credential, Diane was assigned to Bob Garmston as her intern coach and Art Costa as a professor. This early career interaction turned in to a lifelong intellectual partnership, with Diane joining the Cognitive Coaching consulting consortium. Diane has taught in administrative training programs at several northern California universities, and over the past 20 years she has written and consulted in the areas of Cognitive Coaching, teacher supervision and evaluation, facilitation, stages of adult development, assessment of leadership skills, and constructivist leadership. Her recent publication, co-authored with Robert Garmston, is Lemons to Lemondde: Resolving Problems in Meetings, Workshops, and PLC's (2031). Throughout her career, Diane has been involved in handling divergent opinions and mediating conflict. She has proven that she can work with staff and community to develop creative talents, while always focusing on the child. In her years as a principal and superintendent she invested in staff by fostering talents and leadership capacity. She takes great pride in being part of communities that not only work well together, but seek challenges as an opportunity for learning. |
