Robin J. Fogarty

Robin Fogarty is president of Robin Fogarty & Associates, a Chicago-based, minority-owned, educational publishing/consulting company. Her doctorate is in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University of Chicago. A leading proponent of the thoughtful classroom, Robin has trained educators throughout the world and has taught at all levels from kindergarten to college, served as an administrator, and consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Puerto Rico, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, Korea, Bahrain, the Virgin Islands, and the Netherlands. Robin has published articles in Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, Middle School Journal, and the Journal of Staff Development. She is the author of From Staff Room to Classroom, Supporting Differentiated Instruction: A PLC Approach, How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core, and A School Leader’s Guide to Common Core. In related efforts, as an avid advocate of skills for 21st-century schools, Robin recently contributed to an anthology called 21st-Century Skills: Restructuring How Students Learn. Her latest book, with coauthor Brian Pete, is The Right to Be Literate. Robin is currently working on her new book, Think, Learn, Read: Mastering 21st Century Skills for International School Curricula, with Brian M. Pete.