Linda Munger, Director of Munger Education Associates, holds a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership from Iowa State University. She was a classroom teacher for 20 years prior to becoming an educational consultant. She works with diverse groups, which include schools, districts, and agencies, in facilitating and evaluating professional development/school improvement initiatives. Most of her work has been the result of her dissertation research, which focused on monitoring the change process when components of an effective training design and support structures (i.e., administrative support, learning teams, and coaching) were used to implement an innovation. Some of her publications, including two articles in the Journal of Staff Development, reflect on this work.

Her work on evaluating professional development has mainly focused on organization support and change and teachers--use of knowledge and skills, which have been identified as Levels 3 & 4 in Thomas Guskey's book, Evaluating Professional Development. She frequently uses the CBAM tools, which are identified in Gene Hall and Shirley Hord's book, Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes.

Some of her evaluations have included monitoring implementation of various professional development/school improvement initiatives, such as conflict resolution, cooperative learning, the writing process, classroom assessments, Success4, early intervention for reading, block scheduling, mentoring, and technology. She received the best non-dissertation award from NSDC at the 2001 Annual NSDC Conference.

Linda is past president and current executive director of Iowa Staff Development Council. She serves as a consultant for the NSDC Custom-Designed Services, which include using the standards to design and implement effect professional development and professional development audits to determine the current status of professional development. She has been working with Joellen Killion and has made numerous presentations across the nation on Assessing Impact: Evaluation Staff Development.