Bonnie M. Davis, Ph.D., is a consultant who is passionate about education. For the past thirty-eight years, she has worked to insure that all students have access to the best in teaching. She has taught in middle schools, high schools, community college, four universities, a women’s homeless shelter, a shelter for runaway adolescents, and a maximum security men’s prison.  She is the Program Associate for the Humanities for the Regional Professional Development Center, housed at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

She holds a B.S. in Education, an M.A. in English, an M.A.I. in Communications/Media, and a Ph.D. in English. Bonnie is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. In 1986, she traveled to Africa on an NEH Grant to study the influence of African literature upon African-American literature. She presented her findings at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, and she delivered the keynote, “The Changing Paradigms of Literature,” for the 1991 NCTE Summer Institute at San Francisco State University. She was the 1987 District Teacher of the Year and the first recipient of the CSD Robert D. Elsea Teacher of the Year Award. She received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; the World of Difference Community Service Award; and the Clayton Rotary Service Above Self Teacher of the Year Award.

Bonnie has directed numerous writing projects and continues to write for publication. Her published piece, “A Cultural Safari” won a national Paul Farmer Writing Award, and her piece on women appears in the 2000 William Faulkner Encyclopedia.

Her book, How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You  has been published by CORWIN PRESS . In this book, Bonnie describes her journey as a white woman searching for the best in teaching for all children, and she includes her successful African-American Academic Achievement Model (The 4 A’s), now replicated in several school districts.  Bonnie's second book, How to Coach Teachers Who Don't Think Like You:  Literacy Coaching to Improve Achievement , is scheduled to be published by CORWIN in December 2007.

She has presented on Academic Achievement at numerous state and national conferences and continues to provide workshops on “closing the gap” in school districts throughout the United States through her consulting firm, A4Achievement.

You can contact Bonnie by email at:

 a4achievement@earthlink.net