Lane Narvaez has been the principal at Conway Elementary in the Ladue School District, St. Louis, Missouri, for the past 12 years. She has served as an administrator at the elementary, middle, high school, and district levels. Narvaez has worked in the public school systems of New York, Arizona, and Missouri, and has 28 years of teaching and administrative experience. She has worked in at-risk as well as affluent school communities. Her degrees include a bachelor of arts from Hunter College in New York, a master's in reading from Manhattan College in New York, and a doctorate in reading from Arizona State University. Her research interests include mentoring the beginning teacher, curriculum and instruction, and schoolwide differentiation. She has presented at the national conferences of the Association of Teacher Educators, American Educational Research Association, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. She has also presented at the Summer Institute of Academic Diversity at the University of Virginia and the Oxford Round Table in Oxford, England, on her work involving schoolwide differentiation. For the past three years she has worked with Henry County Schools in Virginia to help implement differentiation throughout the district's schools. She has served as a coach in differentiation for schools in Virginia and California, working with teachers and administrators as they implement differentiation. Narvaez can be reached at Conway Elementary School, 9900 Conway Road, School District of the City of Ladue, St. Louis, MO 63124, or via e-mail at
lnarvaez@ladue.k12.mo.us.