Darlene Axtell is currently an independent consultant and member of the Danielson Group. Since 1997 she has been working with school districts across the United States, Canada, and abroad, helping them implement the framework for teaching into all areas of the school setting. Axtell has been a classroom teacher at the elementary and middle school levels, a school counselor at the middle school and high school levels, and a staff developer. In the administrative arena, she has been a supervisor of school counseling, coordinator of curriculum instruction and assessment, and principal of a middle school.