Jackie Jacobs

Jackie Jacobs, M.Ed, has 17 years of experience in educational publishing at Collaborative Classroom, and 26 years of experience in the field of education. As the Senior Director of Program Development, she leads a team of curriculum writers in researching, conceptualizing, and developing curricula that meet the needs of and is accessible to students and teachers in today’s classrooms. Jackie ensures that Collaborative Classroom curricula meets content standards while creating independent learners, fostering social skill development, and deepening teacher practice.

Collaborative Classroom curricula reach 30,000 new classrooms each year, and the organization is a leader in using a wide-range of diverse texts including trade books, articles, videos, excerpts, and poems to engage children in reading, writing, and critical thinking. Collaborative Classroom uses children’s literature from over 60 different publishers and is committed to putting the most diverse representation of characters and authors in front of K–5 students. Jackie leads the team that decides on this literature and how it is taught.

During her time with Collaborative Classroom, Jackie has been on the development teams for Being a Writer, First, Second, and Third Editions; Vocabulary for Making Meaning; Words in Action; Making Meaning, Third Edition; and Being a Reader, Second Edition.

Prior to joining Collaborative Classroom, Jackie taught in Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada and with the Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Vilseck, Germany. She received her M.Ed. in Curricular and Instructional Studies from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.