Peoria – The Peoria County Regional Office of Education is pleased to announce the hiring of a new director of Professional Development, Cindy Dollman. Dollman has a background in special education, adapting instruction for bilingual learners, and supporting the implementation of Response to Intervention and multi-tiered support systems.

Dollman has a broad educational background including four masters’ degrees in special education, teaching and leadership, reading, and administration. She is well-versed in best practices of professional development for adult learners.

Dollman has provided high quality professional development on a wide-range of topics including: utilization of data to improve instructional outcomes; best practices in reading and the incorporation of reading into content-area instruction; intervention strategies for mathematics; differentiation and scaffolded instruction; the Charlotte Danielson framework; Sheltered Instruction Observation protocol; WIDA standards; social-emotional learning and support systems; standards-aligned instruction and assessment practices; student goal-setting; and effective teaming practices.

The Peoria County Regional Office of Education looks forward to the knowledge and experience Dollman brings to her position. For more information on this appointment, please call the Regional Office of Education at (309) 672-6906.