Bradley Geise (Brad)

ASCD Presenter Bio Bradley Geise Education for the Future is a nonprofit initiative located on the California State University, Chico campus that works with schools, districts, state Departments of Education, and other educational service centers and agencies on systemic change and comprehensive data analyses that lead to increased student learning. Bradley J. Geise has been with Education for the Future just shy of 20 years, providing support and consultation services to schools and districts who are intent on using data for continuous school improvement. Taking the show on the road, Geise regularly provides continuous improvement, data analysis, and other presentation services through workshops, seminars, and a variety of conference appearances. Helping clients work on their own continuous improvement efforts, Geise dedicates a significant amount of time to facilitating data institutes and other hands-on learning opportunities across the country. Geise hosts a monthly online meeting series, Calibrating Your School Improvement Efforts, providing targeted support for school improvement efforts throughout the year to contract clients as well as those who have attended a data institute, workshop, or conference. Geise manages broad contract data services for the office, specifically directing the daily operations of the data services unit, placing emphasis on the integrity of data, and providing the results that are most valuable and useful to schools. Geise works with clients from across the country, directing projects ranging from single schools to some of the largest districts. With Victoria L. Bernhardt, Geise recently coauthored the book From Questions to Actions: Using Questionnaire Data for Continuous School Improvement that documents the role of perceptions data in comprehensive data analysis and details the steps in questionnaire construction, administration, analysis, presentation of results, and staff engagement for school improvement. Geise has also authored several applications that are designed to help facilitate data collection for use throughout school districts. To make questionnaire work more accessible to schools, Geise authored School IQ: School Improvement Questionnaire Solutions. Brad also authored The Classroom Assessment Solution, an application used to collect, analyze, and score stranded/clustered data for classroom assessments. Residing in Chico, Geise and his wife Beth, an elementary school teacher, have a son, Benjamin, and two daughters, Ella Jean and Anna. Geise can be reached at Bradley J. Geise Education for the Future Initiative 400 West First Street Chico, CA 95929-0230 Tel: 530-898-4482 Fax: 530-898-4484 e-mail: bgeise@csuchico.edu website: http://eff.csuchico.edu