Biography
Carol Ann Tomlinson’s career as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher, including 12 years as a program administrator of special services for struggling and advanced learners. She was Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in 1974. She is currently Professor of Educational Leadership, at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and serves as a Principal Investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented and as Co-Director of the Summer Institute on Academic Diversity. Special interests throughout her career have included curriculum and instruction for struggling learners and advanced learners, effective instruction in heterogeneous settings, and encouraging creative and critical thinking in the classroom.
She has served as President of the Virginia Association for the Gifted, Chair of the Virginia Advisory Committee on Gifted Education, and on the board of The Association for the Gifted, Council for Exceptional Children. She is currently President of the National Association for Gifted Children.
Carol is a reviewer for eight journals and a section editor for one. She is author of over 100 articles, book chapters, books, and other professional development materials. For ASCD, she has authored How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms now in its second edition), The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, a professional inquiry kit on differentiation, the facilitatorís guide for two video staff development sets on differentiating instruction, and (with Susan Allan) Providing Leadership for Differentiating Schools and Classrooms. For NAGC, she co-authored (with Sandra Kaplan, Joe Renzulli, Jeanne Purcell, Jann Leppien, and Deb Burns) of The Parallel Curriculum Model: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High Ability Learners. She works throughout the U.S. and abroad with teachers whose goal is to develop more responsive heterogeneous classrooms.
