Brian Mitchell Pete

Brian Mitchell Pete (often credited as Brian M. Pete) is an education consultant and author specializing in professional development for teachers and school leaders. He is cofounder and CEO of Robin Fogarty & Associates, where he works primarily with adult learners in schools and educational agencies across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East. Educated at DePaul University in Chicago, Pete focuses on helping educators transfer what they learn in professional development settings into practical classroom strategies.

Pete is coauthor of From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development, which provides tools and strategies for designing, presenting, facilitating, and coaching effective staff development and has been recognized with a 2006 National Staff Development Council book award. He has also coauthored several other professional learning and curriculum resources, including From Staff Room to Classroom II: The One-Minute Professional Development Planner, How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core, School Leaders Guide to Common Core: Achieving Results, Supporting Differentiated Instruction: A PLC Approach, and The Right to Be Literate: 6 Literacy Strategies for the 21st Century.