Kathy Glass

As a former master teacher who holds current teaching certification and a masters in education, Kathy Tuchman Glass nationally 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 administrators and teachers in groups of varying sizes from one-on-one to entire school districts. Her audiences and clients service kindergarten through high school students. She assists 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 included in a backward design approach; using compelling instructional strategies that engage all learners; incorporating various effective pre-, formative, and summative assessments into curriculum; using six-trait writing instruction and assessment; creating unit or yearlong curriculum maps using state or common core standards; and more.

Kathy offers coaching to help teachers transfer what they learn from her workshops into effective classroom practice. Such opportunities can involve classroom demonstrations, observations, collaboration in curriculum design, and more depending upon clients’ needs.

In addition to Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, K-5 (© March, 2011, Corwin Press), Kathy has written Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4 – 9 (Corwin, 2009), Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum with co-author Cindy Strickland (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 served as a differentiation consultant for Pearson Learning’s social studies textbook series for K-5 (© 2013).

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.