| Speaker Bio
Carol Jago teachers English at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California and directs the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA. She also edits the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE) quarterly journal, California English. Carol has written a weekly education column for the Los Angeles Times, and her essays have appeared in English Journal, Language Arts, NEA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, as well as in other newspapers across the nation.
She has served as director of the National Council of Teachers of English Commission on Literature and currently is a member of NCTE's Secondary Section. NCTE has published her books Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom (NCTE), Alice Walker in the Classroom (NCTE), and Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom (NCTE). Her other books for teachers, With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students and Beyond Standards: Excellence in the High School English Classroom, Cohesive Writing: Why Concept Is Not Enough and Papers, Papers, Papers: An English Teacher's Survival Guide are published by Heinemann: Portsmouth.
Grades: 6 - 12 |
