Angela is currently the owner/manager of Angela Bell Julien Publications & Consulting, LLC. She is a co-author of The Instructional Coaching Handbook: 200+ Strategies for Success. As an educational consultant, Angela provides school leaders and teachers with practical implementation strategies in the areas of: Equity and inclusion, Site Leadership, Instructional Improvement, Strategic Cycles of Inquiry for Systemic Improvement, and Relationship Building. Angela promotes research-based strategies and uses her extensive experience as she trains and coaches educators to increase learning for all students. From 2008-2021, Angela Bell Julien served as a School and District Improvement Facilitator for WestEd's Comprehensive School Assistance Program (CSAP). Julien provided training, professional development, and technical assistance to support leadership, differentiated instruction, and student achievement improvement efforts for schools K–12 in Hawaii, Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, and Colorado. Some of her work in Hawaii focused on improving writing instruction for second language learners and other underperforming student groups.
Angela enjoys motivating leaders to focus on instruction, helping them see how vital instructional improvement is to every school and every learner.
Angela spent more than 30 years in teaching and administration positions in urban and rural high schools. She served as Principal of a diverse, urban, comprehensive high school. Concurrently, she was Project Manager for four Small Learning Community Grantee schools, High School Transformation Facilitator for the district’s 10 high schools and was selected as a Practitioner Advisor for Small Learning Communities. Previously, Julien served as Assistant Principal for Curriculum and Instruction in another large urban high school in an area of high poverty. In both schools, Julien worked to resolve practices causing inequities including ability tracking and underrepresentation of students of color in honors and Advanced Placement classes. Throughout her career, she has created and implemented innovative plans that have successfully improved student achievement for all students and closed achievement gaps.
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Look out for her new book from ASCD on instructional coaching.