Curtis Linton

Curtis Linton is a co-owner of School Improvement Network where he is co-executive producer of The Video Journal of Education and TeachStream. He has spent the last 10 years documenting on video and in print the improvement efforts and best practices of the most successful schools and school systems across North America. Each year, he visits more than 100 classrooms and schools, capturing what they do to succeed with all students at the classroom, school, and system levels.

Mr. Linton has written or produced dozens of award-winning video-based staff development programs, including No Excuses! How to Increase Minority Student Achievement, which presents how schools across North America have completely closed their achievement gaps.  He also co-authored with Glenn Singleton the best-selling, award-winning book, Courageous Conversation About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools.  His areas of expertise include building equity, using data, leadership, effective staff development, brain research, differentiation, action research and closing achievement gaps. With the goal of delivering results-based professional development efficiently to large numbers of educators, he works with school systems to design comprehensive school improvement plans that integrate workshops, video, electronic media, and other resources. As a part of this, Mr. Linton conducts workshops on building systemic equity to increase minority student achievement and integrate effective classroom practices.

Mr. Linton also works extensively in the community, including serving on the Davis School District Equity Committee and directing the Salt Lake chapter of Families Supporting Adoption. Mr. Linton received his master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Southern California and currently resides with his wife, Melody, in Salt Lake City, Utah. They have a son.