Robin J. Fogarty

Robin J. Fogarty, PhD, is an education consultant and author specializing in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, and is president of Robin Fogarty & Associates, a Chicago-based educational consulting and publishing company. She has taught at levels ranging from kindergarten through college, served as a school administrator, and has provided professional development and consulting services for state departments and ministries of education in the United States and internationally, including Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, Korea, the Netherlands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Bahrain. She holds a doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University Chicago, a master’s degree in instructional strategies from National-Louis University, and a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from the State University of New York at Potsdam.

Fogarty is the author or coauthor of numerous works on teaching and learning, including From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development and its related leadership series, Brain-Compatible Classrooms, Ten Things New Teachers Need to Succeed, and Literacy Matters, as well as coauthored titles such as How to Integrate the Curricula, The Adult Learner, Close the Achievement Gap, Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference, Nine Best Practices That Make the Difference, Informative Assessment, and several books on metacognition, problem-based learning, and teaching thinking skills. Her articles have appeared in professional journals including *Educational