Office Phone: 510-885-2632 Office Fax: 510-885-4642 Office: Arts & Education (AE) 207 michelle.collay@csueastbay.edu Office Hours: TBA AE 207 and by appointment EDLD Office Phone: 510-885-4145 EDLD Office: AE 250

Michelle Collay, Ph.D. is Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, CSU East Bay, California. She supports teacher and positional leader development through graduate education programming and site-based school coaching. Most recently, Collay was a School Change Facilitator at the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools where she coached school leadership teams in Oakland and San Francisco. Previously, she worked as a faculty member and administrator in teacher preparation and graduate teacher education in public and private universities. Collay conducts seminars and workshops about professional learning communities, constructivist learning design, and portfolio development. Publications include: Constructivist Learning Design: Key Questions for Teaching to Standards, co-authored with George Gagnon (Corwin Press, 2006); and Learning Circles: Creating Conditions for Professional Development, co-authored with Dunlap, Enloe, and Gagnon (Corwin, 1998). Before completing doctoral studies in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Oregon , she taught music and mathematics in elementary and junior high school and continues to play bassoon in local chamber ensembles. Collay is a parent leader in her children’s neighborhood school in Oakland.