Our Authors
Teachers Teaching Teachers
PD Pro authors are current educators who hope to enhance, inform, and equip teachers through their unique and varied experiences, knowledge, and perspectives; experts honoring one another through learning and sharing.
Meet The Team
Bonnie McGuire
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Bonnie McGuire is a lifelong public school educator-teacher, principal, central office administrator. Since retiring from Tacoma Public Schools, she continues to support public education as a consultant (investigations, discipline hearing officer, administrative/classroom teacher coach, trainer, outside evaluator, and more.) She and her husband love to laugh, dance, play golf, read, spoil their grandchildren, and laugh some more. She loves public education and continues to answer its call.
Barbara Ritter
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Barbara Ritter has been a career educator in traditional and non-traditional ways. As a teacher, she served elementary, high school, and college students. As an administrator, she was a Career and Technical Education Director and Curriculum Director. After retiring, Barbara was a consultant training hospital medical staff in on-line charting. She also volunteered as a teacher and curriculum developer in Nigeria for a year. In addition to teaching in several states, she taught for several universities in Canada, Alaska, Guam, Oregon, and Washington.
Barbara was once an avid runner, now a walker. She enjoys her family and friends, travel, reading and writing, and her cat, Miss Kitty.
Paula Bond
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Paula Crews Bond obtained her undergraduate degree (Early Childhood Education) through Bowling Green State University, her MA (Gifted Education) through the University of Northern Colorado, and her administrative credentials through the University of Puget Sound. She holds a Montessori credential from the Association Montessori International (AMI). She has had advanced training in Cognitive Coaching.
She spent 26 years leading schools in the Bethel, Tacoma and Dieringer School Districts. She was the founding principal of the two public Montessori schools in Tacoma. She has been coaching teachers through Northwest Educational Development (NWED) since 2016.
Prior to being a principal, Paula served as the Director of Highly Capable Programs for Tacoma Schools and OSPI, and taught in several school districts in Montana and Colorado, including on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and a migrant community in Colorado.
Paula is a fierce advocate for children, and works tirelessly to ensure that all school based decisions put the needs of students before all else. She believes that all children learn better when they're intellectually and physically engaged in learning. Her days are always brighter when she's spent time in a classroom.
Paula loves learning, travel, music, reading, gardening, and political organizing around social justice issues. Her grandchildren are her favorite humans on the planet.
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