Mark Tornow

A field associate with PCG Education, Mr. Tornow works with the firm's education content consulting team on data services, instructional leadership, and program evaluation and improvement projects. He currently works with the Tennessee Academic Specialists Program as Director of Special Projects, as well as the Florida Rural Turnaround Leadership and NJ SMART data professional development projects. He has more than 30 years of experience working and teaching in the education field at the elementary and secondary levels.

• Educational data use
• School leadership
• Teacher professional development
• School/district program evaluation and planning

Prior to joining PCG Education, Mark served as an elementary principal near Nashville, Tennessee. Under his leadership, the school was recognized by U.S. Department of Education as a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School in 2006 because of its significant improvement in student achievement, despite a high student poverty rate. Mark also served as an executive director of a non-profit educational organization and was a program manager with the Tennessee Department of Education in the Division of Assessment and Evaluation. Prior to that, he served as a principal, assistant principal, teacher, and coach in schools spanning elementary and high school settings.

Mr. Tornow earned a Master of Education in Educational Administration at Concordia University, Irvine, California. He received his Bachelor of Science in Education from Concordia Teachers College (now University) Seward, NE.

Geier, R., Smith, S., & Tornow, M. (2012). District data teams: A leadership structure for improving student achievement. A PCG Education White Paper. Portsmouth, NH: Public Consulting Group. Available online: http://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/education/library/index.html.

Tornow, M. (2011). Next steps in using data for school improvement. Presentation at the Tennessee Academic Specialists Program quarterly meeting, Nashville, TN.

Tornow, M. (2011). Effective use of data to drive school improvement. Presentation at the Florida Reading Association Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.

 

   To learn more about Mark Tornow or other PCG Education Subject Matter Experts, contact us at
   pcgeducation@publicconsultinggroup.com or 1-800-210-6113.