As a former master teacher who holds current teaching certification, Kathy 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 more than 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 Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4 – 9 (Corwin, 2009), Kathy has written 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). Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum with co-author Cindy Strickland is available in October through Corwin Press. In addition, Kathy has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (© 2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (© 1995, DC Heath and Co).