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Tisby Educational Consulting is a DFW-based business that provides literacy professional development, consulting, and coaching. Our focus is on supporting districts, campuses, and educators in work that increases student achievement. Markesha Tisby, the founder of TEC, has experience as a classroom teacher, Master Reading Teacher, and District Elementary ELAR Teaching and Learning Coach. Ms. Tisby supports educators through professional learning opportunities. Her most impactful strategies are coaching, modeling, and co-teaching lessons. With her experience with the top literacy instructional resources, best practices, and her House Bill 3 Reading Academies Cohort Leader credentials, she is an invaluable asset.

What Our Clients Are Saying About Markesha

"I absolutely love working with Markesha! She has a wealth of knowledge in literacy and inspires others to be the BEST teacher for their students. This is my first year as an instructional coach, and I have learned so much from Markesha on how to be a great literacy coach for my teachers. She goes above and beyond for anyone she is working with or coaching." ❤️

-Norma, Campus Instructional Coach

"Thank you for this! You make us feel so supported, and it is refreshing when you are here!"

-Angie, Assistant Principal

"We are so thankful for you. You are so knowledgeable and a great presenter. We were able to immediately take what we learned and develop a plan of implementation. I hope we get to work with you more in the future.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. It was definitely time well spent."

-Jessica, Assistant Principal

"I really appreciate you coming out and spending time with our teaching assistants and Mr. D. I also enjoyed talking with you. Thanks for everything. I hope you are still going to serve us next year!”

-Amanda, Campus Instructional Coach

"Markesha Tisby brings a wealth of experience working with students, teachers and families to advance literacy. She is thoughtful, thorough and strategic. Markesha has a way of making next steps clear and manageable, whether that’s the next level of support for campus or district literacy goals, or the next way to support a young reader. Markesha Tisby is the real deal in literacy leadership!!”

-Heather, Educational Consultant

Markesha Tisby, M.Ed. Founder & Consultant

About Markesha

Markesha Tisby is a lover of all literacy-related things. She started her career teaching kindergarten and first grade. During that time, she received multiple awards, including Teacher of the Year. She has also served as both a Response to Intervention Specialist and Master Reading Teacher. Before going into educational consulting, Markesha was a Literacy Specialist/K-4 ELAR & Social Studies Teaching and Learning Coach. She loves training and empowering teachers to use literacy best practices to increase student achievement. Teachers respond well and appreciate Markesha's passion, commitment, and hugs.

Markesha received her Master of Education in Reading from Texas A&M Commerce.

Working with teachers by day and parents by night, she is hoping all children experience the joy of reading and discover their favorite books.

Markesha is a member of the Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, serves on the board as the Vice President-Elect, and has presented multiple times at the annual, state conference. She is also a proud graduate of the Leadership ISD 2020 Cohort.

Specialties:

Comprehensive Literacy, Small Group Reading Instruction (Leveled Readers (for Guided Reading) & Decodables (for phonics-based lessons), Phonics, Literacy Workstations, Shared Reading, Interactive Read-Alouds, Reading Minilessons, Writer’s Workshop, Developmental Reading Assessment, Fountas and Pinnell Classroom, Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study for Writing, Leveled Literacy Intervention, Literacy Walks and Side-by-Side Coaching, New Teacher Development, Classroom Management Face-to-Face & Virtual Professional Development