Dr. Julie Smith is a thirty-four year veteran educator, international speaker-consultant and author. She currently serves as an Author Consultant with Corwin. Her passion, area of focus, and expertise is in building leadership capacity within people and systems; school improvement planning, teacher, principal and district evaluation models. Serving as a former teacher and principal, Julie also taught at the university level in principal preparation programs in both Colorado and Florida and served as Executive Director of Elementary Schools in Cherry Creek School District in Colorado. She is a