Strengthening the practice and increasing the potential of individuals and teams to ensure student success
Collaborative Educational Practice, Inc. was founded to answer the call for relevant, personalized, and job-embedded professional development to promote continuous learning for staff and students. Utilizing core systems such as the inquiry-based learning cycle along with strengthening the professional learning community, individuals, teams, schools, and districts improve their practice and their potential to impact the success of every student.
Our team
Dr. Amy Bryant
Amy’s core values in her career and in her life are making a difference and courage. These values are evident throughout her career as she sought assignments to inspire students, teachers, and leaders to collaborate and invest in the power of best first instruction. Believing that continuous learning is key for everyone, she works toward co-learning with clients and customizing their path to take courageous steps to reform systems and processes to make a difference in the lives of students, teachers, and leaders. Our greatest gift to the 21st century is a generation of college, career, and civic ready students.
Amy’s journey in education started 24 years ago as a bilingual late-exit elementary teacher in Vista Unified School District. During her time in Vista, she also taught at the middle school level in ELA and history, and became a National Board Certified Teacher in English as a New Language. She also served as a Teacher on Special Assignment; instructional coaching and program oversight inspired her to mentor National Board candidates, as well as teacher induction candidates. Her love of working with adults on instructional practice inspired her doctoral specialization in curriculum and teaching. From there she served as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction, as well as an Elementary Principal in Capistrano Unified School District and in Carlsbad Unified School District. Consulting brings all of these years of experience together to share and grow along with the districts she has supported through the years.
Amy holds a B.A. in Spanish from San Diego State University, a M.Ed. in Cross-Cultural Teaching from National University, and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Northcentral University.
Vanessa de Guzman
Vanessa brings over 25 years of experience in education from Kinder through graduate school. She started her education career with Teach for America as a secondary science teacher in Oakland Unified School District. When she moved over to the international school system, she joined the International Baccalaureate team at the American School of Lima in Peru and, in a once-in-a-life-time opportunity, coordinated field studies in the Amazon for local communities of students and adults. In full circle of the teaching and learning of science, Vanessa was the lead author of a multi-state alternate certification pathway for secondary science teachers through The New Teacher Project and Insight Education Group.
In the service of students and educators, Vanessa directed professional development at one of the country’s first nation-wide charter school systems; furthermore, she helped expand the reach of two California-based professional development companies that support urban and rural districts. Vanessa has led teams in strategy, development, and implementation of service models for sustained improvement in the areas of teacher expertise, leadership development and systems coherence. Currently she is a field supervisor for Masters candidates in the area of Teaching and Learning at the University of La Verne.
Vanessa holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and a M.A. from Harvard University.
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