School Learning Laboratory Staff
Doris Ray, Director/Facilitator
Doris Ray is a private education consultant who specializes in Action Research, Documentation and
Evaluation. Her current work includes evaluation work for education programs in Maine and South
Dakota. Over the last decade she has conducted evaluations of K-12 school change initiatives that
include high schools’ restructuring efforts, student engagement, and the impact of at-risk programs on
students in grades 9-12. She has worked extensively with state and national organizations as well as
private groups. Her experiences in education include work as a classroom teacher, curriculum director,
instructional media specialist, and technology consultant. From 1984 to 1995 she was a Senior Project
Manager with the Maine Center for Educational Services, where she Directed the Maine Computer
Consortium, and served as documenter for the Restructuring Support Project, Project TEAMSS, the
Hitachi Science and Math Project, and as a special consultant with the Maine Department of Education.
She has also done extensive work as an editor and writer. Her research on the relationship between
technology and school restructuring, published in 1991, was one of the first attempts to study this
phenomenon. She was the contributing editor for Voices of Change, a magazine about Maine schools in
transition, and she has published a number of articles dealing with the use of technology in education.
Diane Ray, Facilitator
Diane Ray is Founder of Partnerships for Innovation, a consulting firm specializing in creative research
and group processes for various objectives from project planning to new product and program
development to strategic planning. She brings technical capabilities, cross-functional team experience
and a diverse perspective to her clients. Diane’s ability to think strategically and conceptualize new
approaches to the problems worth solving is highly valued by all who work with her.
Diane is a certified CDBG administrator, certified Product Development Professional, a member of the Product Development Management Association, Health Care Business Women’s Association as well as several technical and creative associations. As the company name suggests, Diane works to bring to the table strategic and tactical partnership to get the job done and enable creative solutions. She has been a panel member, session moderator and speaker for various association meetings.
Diane has a long-standing love of learning and works to apply individual and group processes to the field of education. In these tumultuous times she is an advocate for working to maximize student engagement and the teacher/student relationship
Ann Pike, Facilitator
Ms. Pike is an educational consultant for the Western Maine Partnership. She designs and delivers or directs professional development opportunities that encompass school districts, administrative teams, school staff, and educators statewide. Formats vary from multi-year on-site professional learning, to weeklong institutes and graduate level courses, as well as workshops with follow-up. Content has included managing meetings for learning, developing writers, assessment, standards-based grading, using data, working with parents, differentiation, mentoring, and strategies for powerful teaching and learning. She has served as director of both the Teacher Leadership Grant Network and the Consulting Schools Project for the Western Maine Partnership. She has also served as a regional coordinator for SEED, a very successful statewide initiative focused on helping educators use technology to support student learning.