Tamara Hall is a District and School Improvement Facilitator at WestEd and is dedicated to building the capacity of K–12 educators to improve schools, ensuring equitable outcomes for all students. Hall provides technical assistance and coaching focused on equity through research, evidence-based instructional strategies, formative assessment, job-embedded coaching, aligned standards-based curriculum and teacher evaluation systems. She provides leadership coaching that supports school improvement initiatives, professional development plans, coaching and feedback systems, professional learning communities, data analysis, and data-informed lesson design. Additionally, Hall has helped numerous districts and schools raise overall achievement, narrow the achievement gap between groups of students, and exit improvement status. Currently, Hall collaborates with the Arizona Department of Education, supporting P3 Literacy Coaches and leaders with instructional practices supporting the science of reading and Utah State Board of Education supporting site leaders with Leadership for Instructional Transformation. Before joining WestEd, Hall spent over 20 years in teaching and administration in high schools. She has taught graduate students in education leadership, philosophy of education, instructional supervision, and program evaluation. Hall served as secondary administrator and a principal of a large, comprehensive high school with a diverse population, where she and her staff significantly improved reading, math, and writing scores and graduation rates. Hall has co-authored and presented at numerous conferences. Most recent presentations include: • Developing Collaborative Systems for Equity and Teacher Efficacy • Professional Collaboration for Alignment of Standards and Assessment: Intentional Lesson Design • Leadership for Instructional Transformation • Transformative Leadership for Equity: A Leadership Implementation Guide • Teachers Coaching Teachers Through Plan, Observe, Debrief (POD) Cycles Hall has an EdD in educational leadership and policy studies from Arizona State University.