The Role of Assessment with Tina Eichstadt and Lou Ellen Marlatt

Lou Ellen brings 16 years of classroom instruction, intervention, instructional coaching, and MTSS/RTI lens to her role at Pearson Clinical Assessment, based on the many adventures afforded life as a military spouse from DoDEA in Germany to New Jersey and Philly, St. Louis, and Florida. Getting her start with Pearson in the Training Department in 2019, Lou Ellen now serves districts in the southeast as an Assessment Consultant for Classroom Assessments. 

Lou Ellen has a BS in Education from Valdosta State University and MS in Education with a concentration on Reading and Literacy from Walden University.  

Tina Eichstadt is a speech-language pathologist (SLP) and senior product manager for Pearson Clinical Assessment. She currently leads product-level strategy and execution, represents professional and market needs internally, and manages a portfolio of products related to achievement, including dyslexia. Tina worked clinically as an SLP at Luther Midelfort Mayo Health System in acute, subacute, and outpatient roles serving children, adults, and their families with a wide range of cognitive, communicative, and swallowing challenges. Her past publishing experience includes sales, marketing, print-based development, and software development roles at Thinking Publications and AGS Publishing. She is a past president of the Wisconsin Speech-Language-Hearing Association. As a mom of four children ages 8-15, Tina volunteers at her children’s school as an SLP each week, offering assessment and intervention services across multiple grades.