Judith A. Stout is a retired school district administrator and an independent consultant. Judy earned her B.A. at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and her M.Ed. and Ed.D. at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She retired in 2005 with 19 years of educational experience in Lawton Public Schools in Lawton, Oklahoma, and nine years in Colorado school districts. In Oklahoma, Judy was an elementary classroom teacher, teacher of gifted/talented students, staff developer, elementary assistant principal, and elementary principal. After moving to Colorado, she was the Director of Elementary Education for Boulder Valley School District in Boulder for five years and the Director of Leadership in Adams County School District 14 in Commerce City for four years. She was on the team that developed the walkthrough model used in Adams 14. She coauthored the book Classroom Walkthroughs to Improve Teaching and Learning (2010). Judy has also published in Educational Leadership, Florida Educational Leadership, and the Oklahoma Middle Level Education Journal, and she has presented at numerous national professional meetings. She can be reached at jstout@lpbroadband.net.