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Jay McTighe brings a wealth of experience developed during a rich and varied career in education. He served as Director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of school districts working together to develop and share formative performance assessments. Prior to this position, Jay was involved with school improvement projects at The Maryland State Department of Education. Jay is well known for his work with "thinking skills," having coordinated statewide efforts to develop instructional strategies, curriculum models, and assessment procedures for improving the quality of student thinking. He also directed the development of the Instructional Framework, a multi-media database on teaching. In addition to his work at the state level, Jay has experience at the district level in Prince George's County, Maryland as a classroom teacher, resource specialist, and program coordinator. He also served as director of the Maryland Summer Center for Gifted and Talented Students, a statewide residential enrichment program held at St. Mary's College.
Jay has published articles in a number of leading journals and books, including Educational Leadership (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development [ASCD]), Developing Minds (ASCD), Thinking Skills: Concepts and Techniques (National Education Association), and The Developer (National Staff Development Council). He co-authored three books on assessment - Assessing Learning in the Classroom (NEA), Assessing Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model (ASCD), and Evaluation Tools to Improve as Well as Evaluate Student Performance (Corwin Press). He is co-author, with Grant Wiggins, of the best-selling Understanding by Design series, Understanding by Design (1998), The Understanding by Design Handbook (1999), The Understanding by Design Study Guide (2000), and the newly-released, The Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook (2004).
Jay has an extensive background in staff development and is a regular speaker at national, state, and district conferences and workshops. He is also a featured presenter in four videotape programs, Performance Assessment in the Classroom (Video Journal of Education), Developing Performance Assessments, and Understanding Understanding (ASCD), Using Backward Design (ASCD).
Jay received his undergraduate degree from The College of William and Mary, earned a Masters degree from The University of Maryland and has completed post-graduate studies at The Johns Hopkins University. He was selected to participate in The Educational Policy Fellowship Program through the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, DC. He served as a member of the National Assessment Forum, a coalition of education and civil rights organizations advocating reforms in national, state and local assessment policies and practices. Jay also completed a three-year term on the ASCD Publications Committee, serving as Committee chair during 1994-95.
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