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"All students can read...with the right motivation. If students aren't learning the way that we teach, we need to teach the way they learn! Principals know all students don't learn the same thing at the same time on the same day, and "Reach to Teach" is the key!"
JIM GRANT is an internationally renowned educator and popular author. Fellow educators regard him as one of America’s most passionate advocates for children. He is the founder and executive director of Staff Development for Educators, the nation’s leading provider of professional development training for educators. Jim’s mission began more than three decades ago when he served as both a principal and a classroom teacher in New Hampshire. It was then that his life goal became STOP SCHOOL FAILURE. His unique style and energy have made Jim Grant one of the country’s most sought-after education speakers. A former New Hampshire governor has referred to Jim as “a cross between Buffalo Bill and Mother Teresa.”
Grant is the author of many popular professional books. His latest release is Death of Common
Sense in Our Schools And What YOU Can Do About It!
In addition, Grant is the author and co-author of more than 20 publications:
Differentiated Instruction: Different Strategies For Different Learners * Differentiating Textbooks * Developmental Education In An Era Of High Standards * The Retention/Promotion Checklist * Retention and Its Prevention * A Common Sense Guide To Multiage Practices * The Multiage Handbook * The Looping Handbook * The Looping Evaluation Book * The Multiage Evaluation Book * Multiage Q&A * Looping Q&A * Our Best Advice: The Multiage Problem Solving Handbook * What Teachers Do When No One Is Looking * What Principals Do When No One Is Looking * What School Secretaries Do When No One Is Looking * The Animal School * If You’re Riding A Horse and It Dies, Get Off! * You Know You’re a Teacher If…
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Professional Experience
- Current: Advisory Board Member, Gesell Institute of Human
Development
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1968-1986: Multiage Teacher/Principal, Temple Public School, Temple,
NH
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1967-1968: Intermediate Grade Teacher, Dublin Consolidated School,
Dublin, NH
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1967-1969: Director, Summer Program for Special Education Students
Educational Background
- 1983 M.Ed., Antioch/New England College, Keene, NH
- 1982 Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH
- 1967 B.Ed., Keene State College, Keene, NH
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| Jim Grant | Founder and executive director of Staff Development for Educators
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