Ria A. Schmidt, Ph.D. is an educational professional with 15+ years of experience as a teacher, principal, central office administrator, and staff developer. Dr. Schmidt's experience in curriculum and instruction includes: creating and presenting professional development sessions for teachers and administrators on differentiation, rubrics, assessment (formative/summative), proficiency scoring, standards and benchmarks, standards-based education, standards-based reporting; successfully guiding a school system transition from traditional grading/report cards to a standards-based reporting system...