Dr. Cassandra Allen Holifield serves as the Director of Northwest Georgia Learning Resources System (GLRS) an extension of the Georgia Department of Education, directing and coordinating special education services for 16 local school systems, Northwest Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Supports (GNETS), and the Georgia School for the Deaf. She previously served as the State Consultant for Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD) for the Georgia Department of Education and also served as an active participant on the Continuous Improvement Monitoring Team.
Dr. Holifield also coordinated two State Improvement Grants for the Georgia Department of Education, “The EBD Teacher Mentoring Academy, and “The School Wide Discipline/Effective Behavioral Intervention & Support (EBIS) Program”. Dr. Holifield served as a Special Education Ambassador to South Africa in 2005 and has been recognized by the Manchester National Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals in the field of Education from 2006-2009.
 Dr. Holifield is a nationally recognized presenter in the field of education, specializing in special education law: “The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)”, “No Child Left Behind (NCLB)”, Collaboration/Inclusion, Differentiated Instruction, Positive Behavioral Supports, School-Wide Discipline, Emotional Behavioral Disorders, Specific Learning Disabilities, Autism, Disproprotionality, Response to Intervention (RTI) / Georgia Student Pyramid of Interventions, and overall School Improvement.
Dr. Cassandra Allen Holifield serves on various state and national
committees and is also the Founder, President and CEO of “Allen
Consulting and Program Development Firm, Inc.", a thriving educational
consulting firm that specializes in school improvement. Dr. Holifield
is also the author of “The ABC’s of Response to Intervention & Behavior
Next Steps: A Practitioner’s Guide to Implementation” and is also the
developer of several online professional development courses that support
educators with successful academic and behavioral implementation to help
improve student achievement.
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