Ochan Kusuma-Powell is co-founder and director of Education Across Frontiers, an organization that promotes teacher education towards the development of professional learning communities. A graduate of Columbia University with a doctorate in international education development, she has over 25 years of experience in international education and is actively involved in supporting international schools to become more inclusive of students with special needs. She is a member of the original Design Team that formed the Next Frontier Inclusion, a not-for-profit organization that continues to support inclusion in schools at a systems level. Together with her husband Bill, she has co-authored several OSAC publications, including Count Me In!: Developing Inclusive International Schools, Making the Difference: Differentiation in International Schools, and Parent Advocacy in International Schools. Other publications include Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher (Corwin Press, 2010), How to Teach Now: 5 Keys to Personalized Learning (ASCD, 2011), and The OIQ Factor: Raising Your School’s Organizational Intelligence (John Catt, 2013) and Teacher Self-Supervision: Why Teacher Evaluation has Failed and What We Can Do About It (John Catt, 2015). Ochan works as a consultant to international schools in differentiated instruction, developing teacher emotional intelligence, collaboration, and coaching. She is an Associate Trainer for Thinking Collaborative, specializing in both Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools
