Janet Hale is passionate about supporting educators in making curriculum decisions that ensure, enhance, and enrich learning and teaching experiences. She specializes in curriculum mapping; curriculum design using various models and frameworks, and standards literacy and alignment. She has taught in elementary, secondary, and special-education classrooms, as well as worked with curriculum, instruction, and assessment leadership for over 30 years. Janet’s knowledge and insights are both strategic and practical. She has written several professional books published by ASCD and Corwin Press, including A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining the Process and An Educational Leader’s Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating and Sustaining Collaborative Cultures. Janet is currently staying busy aiding schools and districts with prioritizing standards and determining critical learning focuses.

Kynan Gallagher is Product Manager at Chalk, where he works with teachers and education leaders to create solutions focused on planning, organizing and analyzing curriculum. He has several years experience supporting hundreds of schools across the world in getting their curriculum mapping projects underway.