MRL Associates - Tom Roy
Tom Roy, PhD, is a private consultant and MRL associate who specializes in methods to improve student learning, increase assessment effectiveness, and strengthen school leadership. Dr. Roy is also a professor of education at Marian College in Wisconsin, where he teaches graduate courses on leadership, supervision, curriculum, instruction, assessment, research, and statistics, as well as a variety of undergraduate courses.
With more than 30 years' experience in education, Dr. Roy has served in the classroom and the boardroom. He has taught science and mathematics at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. His 20 years of leadership as a central office administrator includes 12 years as a superintendent. For a year-and-a-half, Dr. Roy worked to develop a science curriculum that has been delivered to remote areas of Papua New Guinea via radio. Through this experience, he gained a unique perspective and focus in problem solving.
Dr. Roy's expertise includes teaching for understanding and best practices in student assessment. His work in school leadership provides a basis for implementation of improvement plans and creative solutions to typical roadblocks.
Dr. Roy earned a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Boston College, master's degree in education from Elmira College in New York, and bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
Dr. Roy provides a balance of theory and practice to help educators understand a wide range of research and apply it to local data to realize substantial gains in student performance.
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Rave Reviews
"Dr. Roy did an excellent job of engaging a large number of K-12 educators throughout the day."
"Great job! Very good strategies with great ideas to implement easily."
"Dr. Roy's presentation was very engaging the entire time and demonstrated how to engage our students."
"The variety in the presentation was excellent! I was thoroughly impressed."
"I liked the way the presenter summarized his session. He also used real-life examples that helped the participants understand."
"Dr. Roy was entertaining and did a great job of using group participation activities to reinforce his points. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing suggestions on how to improve my teaching strategies."