Mickey Garrison, Founder, Educational Support Services 

Mickey Garrison, Ph.D., has supported schools as an educational consultant for 40 years. She is the former Data Director for the Oregon Department of Education, where she served as leader of the Oregon Direct Access to Achievement (DATA) Project, an initiative that created and implemented a professional development model on how to effectively use PLCs and data teams to improve student learning. Garrison’s areas of focus are special education, assessment and school improvement; she has worked as an elementary school principal, special education teacher, administrator and consultant. Garrison is an accomplished speaker and has co-authored eight books, testified before the Oregon Legislature and U.S. Congress, and, in January 2010, was named the State Data Director of the Year by the Data Quality Campaign.