Joellen Killion is senior advisor to Learning Forward. Since her retirement from Learning Forward as deputy executive director, Killion focuses on helping school systems and states develop and enact comprehensive professional learning systems that ensure all educators have access to highly effective professional learning that results in student success. She is particularly passionate about the role of coaching as a vehicle for personalizing and differentiating professional learning for teachers, principals, and central office staff. She has led a number of local, state, and national initiatives to improve professional learning, its planning, implementation, and evaluation, served as a… consultant to hundreds of schools and school systems, and is the author and co-author of numerous books and articles.Killion is co-author with Patricia Roy of Becoming a Learning School (NSDC, 2009), with Cindy Harrison of Coaching Matters (Learning Forward, 2012) and The Feedback Process: Transforming Feedback for Professional Learning (Learning Forward, 2015).nbsp; Killion is a former school district staff developer, curriculum coordinator, and teacher in the Adams 12 Five Star School District in suburban Denver. nbsp;