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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeff Flygare is a former classroom teacher, English department chair, professional developer, and building-level leader. During his twenty-six-year career teaching high school English, he taught nearly every course in the department. Jeff developed classes in mythology, Shakespeare, philosophy, and comparative religions, and worked with social studies colleagues to create an interdisciplinary class called world studies, which he team-taught successfully for seventeen years. He taught advanced placement (AP) English classes for twenty-one years and served as an AP English literature reader and table leader for Educational Testing Service for many years.

Jeff also has a strong theatrical background, working first as an actor and then as a director at a major regional theater company in Colorado. He directed many high school productions, both traditional and Shakespearean. As a Marzano Research associate, Jeff travels around the United States and across the world to work with educators on topics involving curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a master’s degree in English from the University of Colorado Denver, and a master’s degree in education with an endorsement in gifted education from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.