Carol Jago

Carol Jago has taught middle and high school English for 32 years and is associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA. She served as president of the National Council of Teachers of English and has served as chair of the College Board’s English Academic Advisory committee. She has published books with Heinemann, including The Book in Question: Why and How Reading Is in Crisis, and With Rigor for All. She has also written books about teaching the works of Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Judith Ortiz Cofer for NCTE.
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Carol has been a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, overseeing NAEP and served on the executive board of the International Literacy Association.

Carol has been awarded the International Literacy Association’s Adolescent Literacy Thought Leader Award and the National Council of Teachers of English CEL Exemplary Leadership Award. She was the recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English Squire Award given to honor an individual who has had a transforming influence and has made a lasting intellectual contribution to the profession.

Carol works with Harmony Academy at National University as a Sanford Scholar to help schools and districts turn belonging into measurable gains in engagement, attendance, teacher retention, and academic success.