Classroom 2.0
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Female
Rye, NY
United States
Profile Information:
- School / Work Affiliation
- Curriculum Designers, Inc, Curriculum Mapping Institute
- Website
- http://www.curriculumdesigners.com
- Favored IM Account
- curricDES@aol.com
- Skype Account
- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
- About Me
- BIO from Website:
As the president of Curriculum Designers, Inc., she has served as an education consultant to thousands of schools nationally and internationally. She works with schools and districts, K-12, on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum reform, instructional strategies to encourage critical thinking, and strategic planning. Her books, Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12: and Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping have been best sellers. These books are published by ASCD. Dr. Jacobs' new book, Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening was released in April 2006 by Eye-on-Education, Inc. Numerous articles and interviews have appeared in professional journals and newspapers.
Dr. Jacobs has served as an adjunct associate professor on the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC, since 1981 and continues to teach there annually.
Her consultations are wide ranging having worked organizations like: the College Board, NBC Sunday Today Show, Children’s Television Workshop, CBS National Sunrise Semester, ASCD, IBM EduQuest, The Discovery Channel, Tapestry Productions, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet Education Department at Lincoln Center, the Peace Corps., the National School Conference Institute, the Disney Company, Prentice-Hall Publishing, the Near East School Association based in Athens, Greece, International Baccalaureate, the European Council of International Schools, Australian Council of Educational Leaders and state education departments.
Interviews and features have appeared in the New York Times, Educational Leadership, Child Magazine, Sunburst Communications video on Successful Middle Schools, and National Public Radio "Talk of the Nation" Broadcast. Dr. Jacobs has published curriculum materials with Prentice Hall, Milton-Bradley, the Electric Company, and Bowmar Publishing, and podcasts with ACEL.
Video Journal of Education features a series on her work, in addition, two other video series developed by ASCD focus on Dr. Jacobs’ curriculum models.
PBS features two of her courses for teachers, Curriculum Mapping by Heidi Hayes Jacobs I & II, in their professional development program, PBS TeacherLine® , delivered on-line.
Her doctoral work was completed at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1981 where she studied under a national Graduate Leadership Fellowship from the United States Office of Education. Her master’s degree is from UMASS at Amherst and her undergraduate studies were at the University of Utah in her hometown of Salt Lake City.
The fundamental backbone of her experience comes from her years as a teacher of high school, junior high school, and elementary children in Utah, Massachusetts, and New York.
She is married with two adult children. She and her husband live in Westchester County, New York.
Pamela Livingston
Jun 17, 2008
samccoy
I would like to learn more of what you are thinking about the learning process today;D
Jun 17, 2008
Steve Wilmarth
Great to see you on Steve Hargadon's Classroom 2.0 network! This is great stuff, these build-your-own social networking tools. (I was among the first 100 members of this community... which now numbers in the thousands of members.) I've created 2 social networks that you should take a quick look at:
Ningxia Dragon Student Ambassadors - a network for people who are interested in or participating in educational and cultural exchanges that I've set up around a blended learning, project-based curriculum. The site has details of our upcoming trip to northwest China, Mongolia, and Sichuan province where our students will "adopt" a school damaged in the recent tragic earthquake.
New School Curriculum Group - This site is operated through a 501c3 non-profit foundation (New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.), which I've created to build on international cultural and educational exchanges featuring collaborations between students around the world. I've started with China and the US, but will soon expand to include Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Korea, India, South Africa, Canada, the UK, and Russia. You'll find information here about the programs, curricula, and exchanges we're working on, and I'd enjoy adding any participants from your community. (The site's still "under construction, so please be patient.)
Regarding my work on the chapter, I have put together a deep library of resources and citations as part of the preparation and research. You should know that the topics touched upon in the work have resonated deeply within the education community. (As you know, I've received an appointment as a Fellow at the Academy for Global Economic Advancement at UConn, and will be presenting my thesis at a meeting of business school deans at a conference on "Preparing MBAs to be Globally Competitive" in November.) So, my concern is that my research be as thorough as possible and that I review the most current and important literature on the subject. I have taken a leave from The Center for 21st Century Skills so that I have more bandwidth available to devote to my writing, and I will have a draft available for you by the end of July. I suspect that your comments and editorial suggestions will result in a substantial amount of work needing to be done over the balance of time left this summer, so I have made every effort to "clear the decks" for a focused, substantive, and creative effort on my part. Please know that I hold this project as the highest in my list of priorities, and a critical opportunity for an expression of creative and innovative ideas in the future of curriculum design.
Do not hesitate to contact me and seek any information or clarification you need. I'll be in China until July 28th, but can generally respond to you within a few days.
Cheers,
Steve
Jun 18, 2008
Bena Kallick
Jun 29, 2008
Brandon Wiley
Aug 16, 2008
marcotuts
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com
Dec 26, 2008
Lisa Nielsen
At the NYC DOE your name is always floated around (Kyle Haver, MAK Mitchell) as the curriculum mapping guru. The NYC DOE is looking for tech savvy staff developers with Curriculum Mapping experience (details http://tinyurl.com/title2Djobs). If you know of anyone who may be interested in a position, please share this link . Feel free to email me at lnielsen@schools.nyc.gov for more information.
Thank you.
Jun 10, 2009
Mark Cruthers
With your work in Curriculum Design, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.
Integrating Technology into the Classroom Using Moodle and Wikis by Nellie Deutsch
Get your own Virtual Classroom
Jun 28, 2009
Lucy Gray
I just saw your post in Steve Wilmarth's group here in Classroom 2.0. You also might be interested an a group I've started called the Global Education Collaborative which is where I met Steve, too. There's a group in there that's very interested in figuring out how global awareness concepts can be infused into curriculum.
Please join and/or pass the info on to interested teachers!
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
Aug 23, 2009
wilma kurvink
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Aug 24, 2009