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Tom Marshall is a former teacher of Grades 3 and 4, and staff developer at the Teachers College Reading & Writing Project at Columbia University. He is currently principal of Stony Lane Elementary School in Paramus, New Jersey, the best K-4 elementary school anywhere!
Tom devotes a great deal of his time to working on literacy education. He conducts staff development and writes literacy curriculum for the district in Grades 3 and 4, teaches after school workshops, leads a course for literacy coaches, coordinates the Littogether Teacher Leader Project, and is the founder of the New Jersey Literacy Leaders' Network, a group of about 150 principals from all over Northern and Central New Jersey who want to study together ways in which to support and supervise good teaching and learning in reading and writing.
Tom has presented at NCTE, NJIRA, and other organizations, and served as the chair of NCTE's Elementary Section Nominating Committee in 2013. He is the recipient of NCTE/CEL's 2017 Innovative Leadership Award, and the author of the upcoming: Reclaiming the Principalship, Instructional Leadership Strategies to Engage Your School Community and Focus on Learning (Heinemann 2018).
Tom devotes a great deal of his time to working on literacy education. He conducts staff development and writes literacy curriculum for the district in Grades 3 and 4, teaches after school workshops, leads a course for literacy coaches, coordinates the Littogether Teacher Leader Project, and is the founder of the New Jersey Literacy Leaders' Network, a group of about 150 principals from all over Northern and Central New Jersey who want to study together ways in which to support and supervise good teaching and learning in reading and writing.
Tom has presented at NCTE, NJIRA, and other organizations, and served as the chair of NCTE's Elementary Section Nominating Committee in 2013. He is the recipient of NCTE/CEL's 2017 Innovative Leadership Award, and the author of the upcoming: Reclaiming the Principalship, Instructional Leadership Strategies to Engage Your School Community and Focus on Learning (Heinemann 2018).
