Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412963817)

Cindy Strickland

Cindy Strickland has been a teacher for 25 years and has worked with students of all ages, from Kindergarten to Master′s degree. A member of the ASCD Differentiation Faculty Cadre, Cindy works closely with Carol Ann Tomlinson and has coauthored several books and articles with her. In the past 8 years, Cindy′s consulting work has taken her to 46 states, 5 provinces, and three continents where she has provided workshops on topics relating to differentiation, the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM), and gifted education.

Cindy′s publications include The Parallel Curriculum Model 2^nd Edition, The Parallel Curriculum Model in the Classroom: Applications Across the Content Areas, Multimedia Kit for the Parallel Curriculum (Finalist for 2006 Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) Distinguished Achievement Award) and In search of the dream: Designing schools and classrooms that work for high potential students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Publications in differentiation include Staff Development for Differentiated Instruction: An ASCD Toolkit, Tools for High Quality Differentiated Instruction: An ASCD Toolkit, the ASCD online course Success with Differentiation, the book Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 9-12, and a unit in the book Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 5-9.

Kathy Tuchman Glass As a former master teacher who holds current teaching certification, Kathy Tuchman Glass consults with schools and districts, presents at conferences, and teaches seminars for university and county programs delivering customized professional development. Kathy has been in education for over 20 years and works with teachers at all levels in groups of varying sizes from one-on-one to entire school districts. She assists administrators and teachers with strategic planning to determine school or district objectives, and presents and collaborates on designing standards-based differentiated curriculum, crafting essential understandings and guiding questions, using compelling instructional strategies that engage all learners, incorporating various effective assessments into curriculum, using six-trait writing instruction and assessment, creating curriculum maps, and more.

In addition to this work, Kathy has written Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4 - 9 (2009), Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (2007) and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (2005). In addition, Kathy has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader′s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning ((c) 2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series ((c) 1995, DC Heath and Co).

Originally from Indianapolis, Kathy resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. She can be reached by phone at 650-366-8122 or through her e-mail at kathy@kathyglassconsulting.com. Her Web site is www.kathyglassconsulting.com.