Marcia L. Tate, Ed. D. is the former Executive Director of Professional Development for the DeKalb County School System, Decatur, Georgia. During her 30-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development director. She received the 2001 Distinguished Staff Developer Award for the State of Georgia and her department was chosen to receive the Exemplary Program Award for the state.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 250,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the following best-sellers: Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, Sit & Get Won’t Grow Dendrites, Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, Shouting Won’t Grow Dendrites, and her latest, Mathematics Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites. Participants in her workshops refer to them as the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the 20 strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.