Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs is founder and president of the Curriculum Designers Group, providing professional services to schools and organizations internationally to upgrade curriculum and support teaching strategies that meet the needs of 21st-century learners. Her models on curriculum mapping and curriculum design have been featured in her eleven books and serve as the basis for software solutions used throughout the world.
Working with a wide range of organizations, Heidi has online courses with PBS TeacherLine and PD360 and has consulted to international, national, state, and provincial education departments, professional organizations such as ASCD, NAESP, and Learning Forward, the European Council of International Schools, the Near East School Association, the College Board, ADK International Sino-Canadian Schools in China, New Zealand’s Learning Network, the Kennedy Center, the Peace Corps World Wise Schools, Carnegie Hall, Australia’s EduTech, the United Nations Council on Teaching about the UN, the International Baccalaureate, the NY State Higher Education Commission, the CCSSO workgroup on Global Competencies, and AASA’s Collaborative Project focused on innovation.
In 2014 she received the MAIS International Educator Award in Seville, Spain. Heidi has also served as a program development advisor to Amazon Studios’ children’s programming division.
Heidi’s most recent book, Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Connecting Print Literacy with Digital, Media, and Global Competence, K-12, was released by Routledge in October 2017. Her book co-authored with Marie Alcock, Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments, was published by ASCD in 2017.
Her recent four-book series — Leading the New Literacies, Mastering Digital Literacy, Mastering Media Literacy, and Mastering Global Literacy — was released in 2014 by Solution Tree. Her best-selling books Curriculum Mapping: Tools and Templates and Curriculum 21, both with ASCD, form the basis for a wide range of professional services provided by a talented faculty and a robust clearinghouse, giving educators resources to upgrade classroom life.
Her education career began as a high school, junior high, and elementary teacher in Utah, Massachusetts, and New York.