Nancy+Flanagan

====//Nancy Flanagan has 30 years of classroom experience as K-12 music teacher in Hartland, Michigan, and is currently a doctoral student at Michigan State University, studying Education Policy. She was Michigan Teacher of the Year in 1993, a Danforth Teacher Leadership Fellow, and a featured teacher in the Annenberg/PBS Learning Classroom series.//==== ====//Nancy became a National Board Certified Teacher in 1998, and worked for two years as a Teacher in Residence with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, serving on the development team for the NBPTS music certificate and co-creating a national support program for teachers pursuing National Board Certification.//==== ====//Nancy moderated the State Teacher of the Year online community for the U.S. Department of Education, and co-founded the Network of Michigan Educators. Most recently, Nancy was the lead writer for “Measuring What Matters,” a policy brief on effective teaching, funded by the Center for Teaching Quality. She blogs for the Teacher Leaders Network, the Education Policy Blog, and Livingstontalk.com.// ====