Background
Doctor Heidi Hays Jacobs was born on October 4, 1948.
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Heidi Jacobs
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She completed her doctoral work at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1981.
Career
Jacobs is President of Curriculum Designers, Incorporated. and Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute. She works as an education consultant with schools and districts K–12 on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum reform, instructional strategies to encourage critical thinking, and strategic planning. She received her master’s degree from the UMass at Amherst.
Her undergraduate studies were at the University of Utah in her hometown of Salt Lake City.
She has taught in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, from 1981 to the present. Doctor, Jacobs has consulted with a wide range of organizations including: the College Board, National Broadcasting Company"s Sunday Today Show, Children’s Television Workshop, Columbia Broadcasting System National Sunrise Semester, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, International Business Machines Corporation EduQuest, The Discovery Channel, Tapestry Productions, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, New York City Ballet Education Department at the Lincoln Center, the Peace Corps, the National School Conference Institute, the Disney Company, Prentice-Hall Publishing, the Near East School Association based in Athens, Greece, International Baccalaureate, the European Council of International Schools, and state education departments.
Interviews and features on Jacobs have appeared in: The New York Times, Educational Leadership, Child Magazine, Sunburst Communications video on Successful Middle Schools, and National Public Radio "Talk of the Nation" Broadcast. Doctor Jacobs has published curriculum materials with Prentice Hall, Milton-Bradley, the Electric Company, and Bowmar Publishing.
Video Journal of Education features a series on her work, in addition, two other video series developed by Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development focus on Doctor Jacobs’ curriculum models.
