James Colyott, Ed.S., is a Senior Technical Assistance Consultant at the American Institutes for Research with over twenty years of experience in district and school leadership, monitoring, and improvement. Colyott is currently the project director of the Developing a Statewide School Improvement Implementation Monitoring Tool Project with the Wyoming Department of Education, the project lead with the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Project with the Illinois State Board of Education, and the dissemination lead for the MyTeachingPartner Project with Learning Forward.