Kilgo Consulting, Inc.

Margaret Kilgo, President and CEO
    Margaret Kilgo was a teacher, elementary and middle school principal, and central office administrator in the Houston Independent School District for 30 years. In 1996, Mrs. Kilgo coordinated the Houston Reading Initiative under the leadership of Superintendent Dr. Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education.

    Mrs. Kilgo has spent more than 22,000 hours researching the requirements of the TEKS, TAAS, and TAKS and developing unique instructional processes and models.  Mrs. Kilgo has been a successful educational consultant in school districts throughout Texas since 1997.  She is founder and president of Kilgo Consulting, Inc.

Monica Sandoval, Kilgo Consulting Associate
    Monica Sandoval has studied with Margaret Kilgo for the past five years.  During this time she has developed a deep understanding of the Kilgo research of aligning classroom instruction and assessment with the state curriculum, TEKS/SE, to the depth and complexity of the state assessment, TAKS.   Ms. Sandoval is now serving as a consultant for Kilgo Consulting and is available to provide consultant services to school districts across Texas in the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment programs in reading, mathematics, science, and social studies.

    Monica Sandoval has worked in urban public school education in a variety of settings as a teacher, principal, assistant superintendent and associate superintendent.  She has been an advocate and specialist in services for English language learners.  She began her career as a bilingual teacher in the Oklahoma City Public Schools.  She served as an Education Specialist and Program Director at the Intercultural Development Research Association in San Antonio assisting school districts with bilingual and ESL Program implementation.  She worked in Brownsville ISD for five years conducting research on the impact of parental involvement on student achievement in schools with high incidence of low socioeconomic students. 

    Most recently Ms. Sandoval has served the Houston Independent School District in several roles for 17 years, 1989-2006.  She served as the Associate Superintendent during the beginning reform efforts in Houston in the early 90’s, including shared decision making, modifications in the assessment system, school-based budgeting and accountability plan development for both the local and state level. Also, she has served as a high school and elementary school principal in Houston ISD.

    Monica Sandoval received her B.S. from the University of Oklahoma and her M.Ed. from the University of Texas at Brownsville.  She was a fellow in the first Houston Annenberg Challenge Leadership Academy during the 2000 school year.  She was selected as a candidate for the Broad Urban Superintendent’s Academy in 2002 and completed the program in the fall of 2003.  

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