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About the Author

Brad Cawn specializes in helping schools and teachers integrate and fully realize the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy across the content areas through rigorous inquiry-based instruction centered on the investigation of disciplinary texts. At the core of this support is an emphasis on the work of teaching: professional development that focuses on the design, enactment, and study of instructional practice in school.

Brad serves as an instructor at University of Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate literacy methods coursework in English, social studies, and other content areas; he also teaches graduate coursework in literacy and literacy leadership at Roosevelt University. During 2015 and 2016, he is serving as national director of research on a Gates Foundation–funded project to study exemplary instructional leadership with the Common Core. He has supported some of the largest school districts in the United States, including Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools, and has served as a consultant for numerous U.S. organizations, including the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the Leadership and Learning Center, and the Center for Educational Leadership.

Brad is working on future publications in the area of enhancing academic rigor and the teaching of teaching. He is a pursuing a doctoral degree at University of Michigan, where his research interests include pedagogy of teacher education and the teaching and learning of inquiry-based instruction.

To learn more about Brad’s work, visit www.learning-centered.com. Brad also keeps a blog on curriculum instruction, professional development, and teacher education concerns at www.learning-centered.com/blog.

To book Brad Cawn for professional development, contact pd@solution-tree.com.