History & Institute Team
The Institute Team
The Institute team has deep expertise in performance improvement, school improvement, human capital management, credential development, talent management, and adult training and development. The team is equally experienced in school turnaround, and continuous improvement at the state agency, local education agency and school levels. The Institute’s focus on implementation for sustainability helps those they train and support to meet their goals and maintain gains in improvement over time.

Hale and Page co-authored The School Improvement Specialist Field Guide (Corwin Press, 2013). The Field Guide is the text for the LAUNCH!™ Learning Experience and contains 50+ digital tools.


Dr. Jean Quigg CSIS, ID (ILT), HPLJ, Dr. Quigg serves as National Certification Director and Senior Lead Instructor. She is co-author of the LAUNCH!™ Learning Experience, develops performance-based courses, and provides school improvement consulting support to school districts. She is a retired School System Superintendent and a former Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, principal, assistant principal, reading specialist and elementary teacher. She has deep practical expertise in school improvement, standards-based instruction and grading, development of benchmark tests, and Career Academies. Her experiences in education span 40 years in urban, suburban, and rural school systems. She is a Certified School Improvement Specialist™ (CSIS) and also earned her Instructional Design (ID (ILT)) Certification and Brinkerhoff High Performance Learning Journey Certification in Adult Learning Design. She Co-leads the Principal Supervisor Learning Experience. Jean@TIFPI.org

Pam Henderson, serves as Operations Director for the Institute. Pam, and her company, Henderson and Associates, has specialized for over 30 years in operations management, event planning and management, financial planning and management and amazing client service and relationships. Contact Pam@TIFPI.org regarding contracts, purchase orders, registration and other support.
Learning Transfer PlatformThe Institute partners with Promote International (www.PromoteInt.com) to support state and local education agencies to use the Promote Learning and Performance Platform to develop and coach educators using the power of social learning, performance coaching, and other proven practices that increase learning transfer to performance and results. Contact Deb@TIFPI.org to learn how to leverage this internationally- proven learning and performance platform.