Lisa Kinnaman is currently serving as the Idaho State School Improvement Coordinator, a partnership between the State Department of Education and the Boise State Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies. Prior, she was an education professor at Northwest Nazarene University, as well as a History and Sheltered Instruction teacher at Capital High School in the Boise School District. Lisa has participated in various projects, trainings, and consultations at the state, district, and local levels on topics including state standards, standardized assessments, SIOP and strategies that promote learning and achievement for all students. This past year she has worked to develop and implement the Idaho Building Capacity project, a cornerstone of Idaho's statewide system of support designed to provide frequent and meaningful technical assistance to schools and districts in needs improvement status. She finds it a great privilege to work with amazing educators around the state who are hard at work in the continuous school improvement cycle, striving together to increase student learning and achievement.