Carol Jago is a teacher with 32 years of experience at Santa Monica High School
in California. The author of nine books on education, she continues to share
her experiences as a writer and as a speaker at conferences and seminars across
the country.
Her wide and varied experience in standards assessment and secondary education
in general has made her a sought-after speaker with Heinemann Speakers. As an
author, she also works closely with Heinemann Publishers and with the National
Council of Teachers (NCTE). Additionally, she has collaborated extensively as
an author for Holt Rinehart Winston on the creation of textbooks for teaching
English Language Arts.
She has a long-time association with the National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE) and in June 2007 was elected to a four-year term on the Council
’s Board. During that term she will serve for one year as president of the
Council.
Also active with the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE), she
has edited CATE
’s scholarly journal California English since 1996.
An avid reader, she is known to her colleagues as an inexhaustible fund of
reading suggestions and she shares her recommendations as a reader with
visitors to her web site.
