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Faculty and Consultants
Each of these consultants has had in-the-field, on-the-job experience which has proven valuable in implementing projects. We list only outstanding educators in the following catagories:
We will be glad to make recommendations as to which consultant might best meet your curricular needs.
Curriculum Designers Faculty
- Dr. Ann Johnson is currently the Director of Professional Development for CMI and a national consultant. She was a former classroom teacher, building and district administrator, and adjunct college professor who has worked with leaders and teachers in K-12 districts, post-secondary institutions, and private schools to implement curriculum mapping in their schools and districts. Her practical approach to implementing mapping is based on her experience working with schools across the country and leading mapping in both a suburban and urban school district in central Iowa.
In addition to training teachers, administrators, and leadership teams in the mapping process, she has also trained leadership teams in developing implementation plans, a training design, and support structures to sustain short and long term change.
Ann co-authored a chapter on implementation in Heidi Hayes Jacobs’ book, Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping and was featured in ASCD’s new DVD, Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping. She and Heidi have co-authored a training manual “Professional Development for Curriculum Mapping: Training Modules and Maps for Effective Implementation” to be published by ASCD late this fall. It features 12 training modules and maps to provide guidance to school leaders, staff developers, and leadership teams who are working to implement curriculum mapping in their schools or districts.
Email Ann Johnson || Phone: 515.268.9821
- Dr. Susan Udelhofen is an experienced classroom teacher and national staff development provider who has provided consultation services throughout the United States to thousands of educators from small, large, rural and urban school districts, education agencies, colleges and universities. Her practical presentation style presents the step-by-step approach to curriculum mapping that is based on the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs. Dr. Udelhofen's breadth of experience assists participants to work through the mapping process from building the curriculum maps to implementing strategies for effectively using the mapping data to improve student achievement and teacher learning. She is the author of the best selling book, Keys to Curriculum Mapping published by Corwin Press. Susan resides in Madison, Wisconsin.
http://www.su-consulting.com || susan.udelhofen@su-consulting.com
- Earl Nicholas is currently Director of Communication for Curriculum Designers. An experienced mapper and curriculum mapping facilitator, he is a 35-year veteran teacher. Earl has also served as a software consultant since 1979, and as the district-wide mapping facilitator for a large suburban K-12 school system. Earl uses the model of Heidi Hayes Jacobs to conduct both large and small-group staff development programs around the country, emphasizing how teachers can integrate technology into their mapping process. Earl's effective combination of technology expertise, classroom experience, and light-hearted story-telling have brought him high praise from both administrators and teachers.
Email Earl Nicholas || Phone: 847.367.9667
- Janet Hale has been consulting and training for over 20 years. Her expertise and excellence is only surpassed by her desire to see all students and teachers achieve. Janet works extensively with inner-city, urban, suburban, and rural schools/districts, dioceses, and counties concerning their initial understanding, implementation, and ongoing curriculum mapping needs. Her ease with teachers, team leaders, and administration serves well considering the need for systemic change that Curriculum Mapping constitutes. Based in Tucson, Arizona, Janet's nationwide clients appreciate her knowledge and abilities in quality mapping, curricular dialogue, state standards, aligning assessment practices, and other ongoing curriculum issues. Janet has a professional book focused on mapping entitled, A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining the Process, published by Corwin Press.
http://www.curriculummapping101.com || teachtucson@aol.com || Cell: 520.241.8797 || Home: 520.298.7349
- Christine Shain has taught at the elementary, secondary, and university levels. She has been a curriculum mapping consultant for over ten years. Christine organizes, plans, and facilitates interactive workshops and training sessions for schools and districts throughout Canada and the United States. Her expertise lies in assisting school teams to conceptualize and implement a variety of educational practices, including curriculum mapping, curriculum development, essential questions, e-learning, assessment, and evaluation. Christine has played a leadership role in curriculum and staff development as a public school principal, Head of the Upper School in an independent institution, curriculum coordinator, staff developer and consultant. Christine has also written articles and reviews for educational publications.
Christine’s expertise lies in assisting school teams to conceptualize and implement avariety of educational practices, including curriculum mapping, curriculumdevelopment, essential questions, e-learning, assessment, and evaluation. Shebrings her expertise to mapping at all levels including mapping the big ideas, mappingliteracy, and developing essential questions for differentiated instruction. She is an engaging and very practical presenter with a wealth of background as a teacher and administrator. She is based inToronto, Ontario.
christine_shain@havergal.on.ca || Phones: 905.896.8218 or 647.588.8218|| Fax: 416.482.4719
- Dr. Marie Alcock is a dynamic presenter with national and international experience working with and guiding schools through the mapping process. A true practitioner of mapping, Marie specializes in customizing the mapping process to the specific needs and current initiatives embraced by a school district.
Currently a professor for Walden University teaching curriculum, instruction, and assessment in their graduate program, Marie offers a systemic approach to mapping that makes mapping the hub for all curriculum issues and focuses on making the map data useful as quickly as possible. Marie has extensive experience with private, independent, and parochial school districts as well as new vision and autonomous schools. Visit her site at www.currmap.com.
malcock33@gmail.com || Phone: 973.479.7724 || Fax: 973.406.7567
- Dr. Debbie Sullivan is assistant superintendent in MSD of Decatur Township in Indianapolis, Indiana who has first hand experience in supporting a school district in implementing the curriculum mapping process. She has worked in the district for over 20 years and has served as a teacher, consultant for staff development, assistant principal, and principal. MSD of Decatur Township has been using the curriculum mapping process for the past six years as part of the district reinvention and has worked closely with Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. Debbie has worked with teachers and administrators in beginning the curriculum mapping process and using the process to align curriculum K-12, promote horizontal and vertical articulation, target literacy strategies, and create common assessments.
dsullivan@msddecatur.k12.in.us || Phone: 317.856.5265
- Jeanne Tribuzzi is the Director of English Language Arts, ESL and Foreign Language in the West Seneca Central School District in West Seneca, NY. She has served in a variety of roles in the West Seneca district for the past 19 years as a primary teacher, a middle school English teacher, the Director of Staff Development and is currently the ELA/ ESL & Foreign Language Director. Jeanne is helping to lead the curriculum mapping work in the district and has worked extensively with NY ELA standards. She works with teachers and schools across NY on curriculum and literacy and is working on her doctorate at the University of Buffalo. Jeanne presents at the National Curriculum Mapping Conference each summer and at regional conferences with Heidi Hayes-Jacobs several times each year. Jeanne lives in Orchard Park, NY with her family.
JTribuzzi@gmail.com ||
Curriculum Mapping Consultants
- Dr. Pam Armstrong-Vogel is a superintendent in Iowa and is currently president of Iowa ASCD. She led Leadership Development at Heartland Area Educational Agency and assisted school administrators and leadership teams with the understanding and application of research-based practices, including alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment through mapping. For four years, she served as Curriculum Mapping Project Leader for the central Iowa education agency and facilitated a 26-school consortium as each district successfully implemented mapping.
As a consultant who has presented and assisted schools through the mapping process, she shares how curriculum mapping impacts quality of instruction and student achievement. Her background as a curriculum director, middle school principal, special education teacher and her experiences with the implementation of mapping have enabled her to successfully share and lead the process with other districts. She has an in-depth understanding of mapping from both an administrator and teacher perspective.
pdvogel@mchsi.com || Phone: 515.238.4108
- Tamara Bauck is an education and evaluation consultant from Pierre, South Dakota. Prior to becoming a consultant two years ago she worked for the South Dakota Department of Education for seven years serving as the Director of the Office of Curriculum, Technology, and Assessment. While she was at the DOE she initiated a statewide effort to bring curriculum mapping to South Dakota schools. This initiative included building the capacity of a statewide system of mapping support for schools, as well as, securing statewide licensing for curriculum mapping software. In addition, Tammy co-lead a year-long curriculum mapping study in the state. Tammy has presented at a number of national and regional conferences sharing the learnings from South Dakota’s statewide curriculum mapping efforts.
Tammy.Bauck@pie.midco.net || Phone: 605.280.8102
- Rima Binder is an educational consultant, formerly Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Gifted Programs for a large K-12 unit school district in a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She initiated and facilitated the curriculum mapping initiative in her district. Using Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs' model, a systemic change process was undertaken. She understands and shares the importance of curricular alignment through the mapping process as well as unit design. An energetic and empathetic presenter, Rima trains teachers and administrators in the change process through curriculum mapping.
rimabinder@comcast.net || Phone: 847.310.2139
- Gabrielle Charest is the Manager of Professional Development and Secondary Curriculum in a large, diverse, urban school district in northern California. She coordinates teams of mappers from both elementary and secondary schools who regularly videoconference with Dr. Jacobs. Her background includes principalships at both high and middle levels where she introduced mapping, and longtime experience as a presenter and adjunct professor focused on managing the change process for school improvement. Dr. Charest is passionate about using curriculum mapping to close the achievement gap, promote atandards-based curriculum planning and instruction, and foster assessment for and of learning.
gabrielle@charest.org || Phone: 408.966.9943
- Dr. Gail Choice is a project coordinator for the University of Central Florida. She has presented and facilitated district wide curriculum mapping and vertical team trainer of trainers. She conducts school-wide follow up visits and assists in development of school action plans.
gchoice@mail.ucf.edu || Phone: 407.688.0211
- CO-NECT improves teaching and learning by providing effective professional development, tools, strategies, and support to K-12 educators. CO-NECT's offerings are delivered through a combination of onsite, online, and offsite services.
http://www.co-nect.net || jfriedberg@co-nect.net || Phone: 617.995-3194
- Suzi D'Annolfo from Connecticut is an outstanding secondary school curriculum planner and has first hand experience in assisting schools who wish to implement curriculum mapping initiatives. Suzi is an excellent presenter who can both present workshops and work as consultant in the planning process. She knows the assessment issues that middle and high school teachers and administrators face and how mapping can assist them.
Phone: 860-521-2746
- Dr. Rick Dunlap is the current principal of West Chester East High School. During his professional career, he worked in the roles of a Special Education Teacher, an Assistant Principal of middle school and high school, and the Principal of a national award winning middle school. He earned a Masters Degree in Bilingual/Bicultural Studies and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Immaculata University. Prior to pursuing a career in education, Rick served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.
rdunlap@wcasd.k12.pa.us || Phone: 484.266.3801
- Susan Hudson is an experienced facilitator and trainer who has worked with schools and school systems to understand, explore, and implement curriculum mapping. A dynamic presenter, she has extensive experience with grades K-12, both as a teacher, administrator, and through her work with the Department of Education. Susan is based in Nashville, TN.
Mozarthud@earthlink.net || Phone: 615.463.2836
- David Jacobson and the staff at FreshPond Education are experienced facilitators of team-based professional development and curriculum mapping initiatives. As the head of FreshPond’s professional development services, David works with schools and districts to develop strong approaches to improving instruction, focusing on curriculum alignment and mapping, formative assessment, collaborative lesson planning, and student engagement. FreshPond Education is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts..
davidj@freshpond.com || Phone: 617.864.2425 || Fax: 617.864.3767
- Pat Jacoby is based in Austin, Texas and has been working with school districts in curriculum and assessment design throughout the United States for over 15 years. A former curriculum specialist for the state department of education, regional education service center, and district director of curriculum, Pat now works extensively with standards-based curriculum, curriculum mapping, and designing local assessment systems aligned to state standards. Her specialty is performance assessment with a focus on helping teachers provide students with specific feedback and analyzing student data to improve instruction.
patjacoby@authenticlearning.com || Phone: 512.264.3050
- Bob Kutter has helped districts initiate curriculum mapping, led the design team for an effective mapping planning process, and introduced curriculum mapping at statewide conferences and at local districts. He has experience as a high school language arts teacher, a district curriculum facilitator, and as a regional coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning.
bkutter@meltel.net || Phone: 320.285.5114
- Nikki Roorda is a School Improvement Consultant for Heartland Area Education Agency (AEA) in Central Iowa. Iowa’s AEAs serve as an intermediate agency between the Iowa Department of Education and local school districts. Nikki previously served as the Ankeny Community School District’s Literacy Coordinator. In addition to working with districts on their curriculum mapping initiatives, Nikki also works with districts to use their curriculum maps as a springboard to develop standards-based reporting systems.
DanksN@yahoo.com || Phone: 515.313.1317
- Terri Ruyter has been an educator for almost 20 years. One of her first education courses was “Interdisciplinary Curriculum Design” with Heidi Jacobs in 1988. This course shaped her educational practice in the classroom and continues to exert a powerful influence on her professional development work with schools and teachers. A current focus of her work is on integrating literacy and the teaching of history without sacrificing the disciplinary integrity of either subject. The curriculum development work she is part of in NYC public schools strives to align instruction to New York State ELA and Social Studies standards and to integrate this instruction with the work of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She has taught in independent schools in New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico and is currently an instructional specialist in New York City public schools. Terri believes strongly that the mapping process is the key to deliberate and pragmatic use of multiple forms of data in order to enhance the learning experience of all students in our schools.
terriruyter@yahoo.com || Phone: 212.531.1345
- Barbara Adkisson Suhadolnik is a former teacher and state administrator. She is an excellent facilitator and consultant with first hand experience assisting schools and Districts from across the country implementing the curriculum mapping process. Her background as a change agent enhances her ability to understand and share the importance of all phases of the mapping process from detailed planning for implementation to aligning curriculum maps with state standards and assessment data. Barbara brings her sense of humor to her presentations. She is based in Chicago, Illinois.
bsuhadolnik@sbcglobal.net
- Dr. Debbie Sullivan is assistant superintendent in MSD of Decatur Township in Indianapolis, Indiana who has first hand experience in supporting a school district in implementing the curriculum mapping process. She has worked in the district for over 20 years and has served as a teacher, consultant for staff development, assistant principal, and principal. MSD of Decatur Township has been using the curriculum mapping process for the past six years as part of the district reinvention and has worked closely with Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. Debbie has worked with teachers and administrators in beginning the curriculum mapping process and using the process to align curriculum K-12, promote horizontal and vertical articulation, target literacy strategies, and create common assessments.
dsullivan@msddecatur.k12.in.us || Phone: 317.856.5265
- Jeanne Tribuzzi is the Director of English Language Arts, ESL and Foreign Language in the West Seneca Central School District in West Seneca, NY. She has served in a variety of roles in the West Seneca district for the past 19 years as a primary teacher, a middle school English teacher, the Director of Staff Development and is currently the ELA/ ESL & Foreign Language Director. Jeanne is helping to lead the curriculum mapping work in the district and has worked extensively with NY ELA standards. She works with teachers and schools across NY on curriculum and literacy and is working on her doctorate at the University of Buffalo. Jeanne presents at the National Curriculum Mapping Conference each summer and at regional conferences with Heidi Hayes-Jacobs several times each year. Jeanne lives in Orchard Park, NY with her family.
jtribuzzi@westseneca.wnyric.org ||
- Dr. Regi Wieland is an Assistant Professor in the department of Educational Administration at Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS. Dr. Wieland has been an educator for 26 years, serving as a public school music teacher, a school improvement consultant to rural schools, and an executive director of an educational service agency. Her Ph.D is in Curriculum and Instruction and she continues to work as a curriculum consultant for many rural school districts in Kansas. She has extensive experience with various curriculum design models and helps districts with curriculum mapping, integrating standards into the curriculum, and the technology programs needed to support mapping initiatives. She also teaches graduate courses in curriculum design and evaluation for students preparing to be school administrators.
RWieland@fhsu.edu ||
- Brandon Wiley is the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for the West Seneca Central School District, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. He has teamed with Jeanne Tribuzzi to lead his district through the mapping process. Brandon served as a staff development coordinator at Erie 1 BOCES focusing on curriculum and assessment development, data analysis, social studies and literacy instruction. He has taught at the elementary, middle, and collegiate level. When working with teachers and administrators, Brandon employs both common sense and humor to facilitate the understanding of curriculum mapping and how it can positively impact student achievement.
bwiley@westseneca.wnyric.org ||
- Steve Zadravec is the Assistant Superintendent at SAU 52 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He has worked extensively in the areas of curriculum mapping and assessment. He has served as a consulted to schools in the process of curriculum mapping, specifically on how mapping can help achieve local goals related to student learning and the growth of a professional learning community. He has presented on a variety of curriculum and professional development topics at local, statewide, and national conferences. Steve has also worked with Heidi Hayes Jacobs on strategies to involve students in discussions around curriculum mapping data.
szadravec@portsmouth.k12.nh.us || Phone: 603.431.5080
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Active Literacy Consultants
- Evelyn Arroyo is a former principal at a K-8 school in Phoenix, Arizona. She has taught 2nd through 10th grade in El Paso, Texas, and has over a quarter of a century experience in education. Evelyn has provided professional development to numerous school districts and organizations around the country and has presented at state and national conferences. Her areas of expertise include data analysis, assessment, research-based strategies, reading, and English language learner instruction. Ms. Arroyo’s focus and passion is helping elementary and secondary educators close the achievement gap for minority students and English Language Learners, ELLs. Ms. Arroyo has recently published RISE: Research-based Instructional Strategies for ELLs for elementary and secondary teachers. Arroyo is also the coauthor of NELLLB and SEAL Lesson Design. She is President of RISE Enterprises based in Phoenix, Arizona
www.ellrise.com || earroyoscott@aol.com
- Amy Benjamin is an author an educational consultant with many years of experience as an English teacher and staff developer in the field of strategic literacy. She has trained teachers across the United States in reading and writing in the content areas, differentiated instruction, and language development for academic success. Some of Amy’s workshops and keynotes are entitled: “Writing Equips the Mind to Think,” “This is Your Brain on Reading,” “Vocabulary Instruction to Improve Reading Comprehension,” and “But I’m Not a Reading Teacher.” Amy fully understands the demands that are placed on secondary content area teachers, and she shows them how to make students better readers and writers in social studies, mathematics, science, and English. Click here for a list of Ms. Benjamin's publications.
http://www.amybenjamin.com || Phone: 845.896.6474
- Rachel Bilmeyer Internationally known educational consultant Rachel Ann Billmeyer has extensive experience putting educational theory into practice. She has taught elementary, secondary, and university level classes, and is known for her work with reading in the content areas and reading assessment practices. Rachel is author of the ASCD publication, Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me Then Who? Her recent publications include Strategic Reading in the Content Areas and Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner. Rachel has served in leadership positions, including Director of Professional Development and Instruction, Grant Director for NE Literacy Program, and Program Chair for the Midwest Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Conference. In 1993 Rachel received the NE Literacy Award. Rachel is a dynamic presenter. She conducts workshops, seminars, and training sessions in the following areas: Strategic Reading in the Content Areas • Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner • The Reading Assessment System • Cognitive Coaching
www.rachelbillmeyer.com ||
- Jeanne Tribuzzi is the Director of Language Arts, ESL and Foreign Language in the West Seneca Central School District in West Seneca, NY. She has served in a variety of roles in the West Seneca district for the past 17 years as a primary teacher, a middle school English teacher, the Director of Staff Development and is currently the ELA Director. West Seneca began mapping three years ago and Jeanne is helping to lead that work in the district. She lives in Orchard Park, NY with her family.
jtribuzzi@westseneca.wnyric.org ||
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Curriculum Integration and Unit Design Consultants
- Lucy Barbera, Instructional Specialist, Ulster County BOCES, New York, specializing in multi-disciplinary instruction aligned with the NYS Learning Standards. Other specialties include the use of technology in instruction, arts instruction, and co-teaching strategies for inclusion.
lbarbera@mhric.org
- Rebecca Burns is president of RB Educational Consulting, LLC, located in Charleston, WV. A former teacher, district curriculum specialist, and educational research and development specialist for a regional educational laboratory, she has provided professional development, technical assistance, and keynote addresses on curriculum alignment, standards-based curriculum design, culturally responsive schooling and teaching practices, and instructional improvement for educators across the United States and in Puerto Rico. She is equally comfortable working with teachers or administrators, and her approach to working with a district or school is always collaborative. Rebecca is author of four books for educators --one that also was translated and published in Korea and another that is currently being translated and published in mainland China. She is a contributing author for two other volumes. Click here for a list of her most recent presentations and publications.
http://www.rbeducation.com || rebeccaburns@suddenlink.net || Phone: 304.925.6759 || Fax: 304.925.7602
- Louise Cleveland is a passionate educator and experienced facilitator and trainer who is committed to helping schools revitalize their curriculum to address the needs of the 21st century learner. Her extensive experience in helping K-12 teachers understand their critical and connected roles in teaching literacy and thinking strategies in all content areas and her background in standards -based curriculum, instruction and assessment are assets that enhance her facilitation of the curriculum mapping process. Over the past 33 years Louise has been privileged to serve in New York State schools as a classroom teacher, principal, Director of Curriculum and Professional Development, and Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. Louise's office is based in Pennsylvania.
tlc1@wildblue.net. || Phone: 570.461-3987
- Janet Hale began integrating curriculum in her own classroom, school, and district. Since the mid-1980s, she has worked with vertical and horizontal teams to initially understand multidisciplinary instruction, as well as facilitate the creation of integrated curriculum units that enhance students' educational experiences. Current issues, such as meeting state standards and aligning curriculum and assessments, are also a consideration that Janet focuses on when considering a school's or district's reform needs. She is based in Arizona.
http://www.TeachResources.com || teachtucson@aol.com || Phone: 520.241.8797 || Fax: 520.298.7349
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