Dr. Marge Tye Zuba  is an internationally recognized educator, author, speaker and consultant on education, gangs, leadership, management and motivation.  Utilizing her expertise in the area of Learning Styles, Motivation and Classroom Management, Marge has presented courses and workshops all over the world to educators, parents and businesses.  She earned her doctorate in Leadership and Educational Policy Studies from Northern Illinois University and her Master's in Social Work from the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Marge has been a member of the faculty at Northern Illinois University where she spearheaded the first inner city graduate program at Clemente High School in Chicago.  She has also been on faculty at the  University of Illinois, DePaul University, Dominican University and is currently on the faculty of  Framingham State College International Programs and Capella University.

Dr. Zuba has spent more than twenty years as a high school teacher, creator and Director of a Chronic truancy Program, and Dean at Oak Park River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois.  She has also worked with Latino street gangs in Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village area.

Internationally, Marge works with teachers in Africa, Latin America, South America, Europe and the United States. Most recently she has presented keynotes in Panama for the English for Life Program, at the IACAC (Illinois Association of College Admissions Counselors) in May, 2008 and presented the keynote in October, 2009 at the AASSA (American Association of Schools of South America) in Santiago, Chile. She has authored "Wish I Could've Told You",a book chronicling the lives of students identified as Truants in a Chicago suburb.  She also co-edited the book, Education/Change, which focuses on multicultural education.

                                                                mtzuba@comcast.net