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.
Jeanne Tribuzzi
I loved the wmv movie from Shodack. I presented at the Capital Region BOCES reading conference this summer and Donna (the girl in the blue in the video) was there. You had introduced her to me in Latham. She is working on establishing Readers' Workshop in the district and I loved her instantly!
The video is a great way to open the school year!
Jeanne
Aug 30, 2009
KRandall
Greetings,
I am working on a project involving aligning our district curriculum with the Common Core English Language Arts standards. Our elementary reading program is a spiral curriculum based on a reader's workshop model. I am looking for examples of reading curriculum maps that are not based on units, ones that help teachers understand and document the spiral of a spiral curriculum within a standards-based framework. Do you or any of your site readers have suggestions for me as to where to look?
With appreciation,
Karen Randall
Mar 4, 2011
Terry Godwaldt
Hello from Canada,
A couple months ago our team attended your workshop in San Francisco and were totally inspired. We spoke to you afterwards about running a virtual session over video conference (H.323). We have a dozen schools across N.America that would love to attend as well as a few hundred teachers in Edmonton, Canada. Please let me know if you are still willing.
Terry
International Programming Coordinator
The Centre for Global Education
terry.godwaldt@epsb.ca
Jun 27, 2011