 | Joan Evans Senior Consultant, Cross and Joftus, LLC, California Joan Evans is a senior consultant at Cross & Joftus. For 42 years, she taught in and served as school site and central office administrator for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school district serving approximately 680,000 students. As director of Standards-Based Education, she collaboratively developed and implemented Deming's continuous improvement process with representatives from all constituent groups. Evans has provided training to thousands of educators and has published articles on how to systematically implement an effective standards-based accountability and assessment system that resulted in measurable gains in student performance that exceeded the state average. View sessions with Joan Evans |