Dr. Schauna Relue is an Education Consultant serving as a Technical Assistance Partner and Leadership Coach to schools and districts and a trainer to schools implementing the “Time To Teach” classroom management approach. She served as Assessment and Policy Director at Key Data Systems, Chief Academic Officer and Director of Curriculum in multiple districts for more than 10 years, and served as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Indiana Department of Education. In that role, Dr. Relue supervised all content area specialists, Indiana’s Academic Standards, implementation of state code regarding curriculum requirements and recommendations, and served as a team member of all areas impacting the state’s academic achievement including the state’s plan for implementing the Common Core State Standards. The comprehensive plan included leading teachers, coaches, professors, and content experts in the development of state curriculum maps which served as a starting point for schools to develop curriculum, resources that support the standards, and state-provided formative assessments that aligned with the curriculum maps. When Indiana left the Common Core, Schauna was one of the two the reviewers of the 2014 standards for the Governor’s Office along Achieve, Inc. She also supervised the roll-out and implementation of the 3rd-grade reading law as well as the Division of College and Career Readiness which worked with business, industry, and higher education to develop career pathways which lead to certification or dual credits.

Prior to serving at the IDOE, Dr. Relue served as Director of Curriculum with the state’s largest district, Fort Wayne Community Schools. There she coordinated the K-12 comprehensive academic program supported by research-based instructional frameworks for elementary and secondary literacy and innovation configurations aligned to the frameworks. She trained all administrators and coaches on the Learning Walk Protocol to monitor implementation of curriculum and instruction and led the district’s Learning Walk initiatives as part of the job-embedded professional development cycle which she helped design and deliver. She also oversaw the district’s Reading First and K-12 reading intervention programs.

With Dr. Relue’s extensive training in literacy including dyslexia, she served for two years on the ELA content workgroup for the PARCC assessment consortium helping shape the design of next-generation summative assessments. Dr. Relue’s experience working in districts, at the state department level, and for the foremost leaders in adaptive instructional technology and classroom management makes her a valuable consultant to those with whom she works.