Jeff Flygare

Jeff Flygare

Jeff Flygare is a former classroom teacher, English department chair, professional developer, and building leader. During his 26-year career teaching middle school drama and high school English in Academy School District 20 in El Paso County, Colorado, he taught nearly every course in his school’s English department. Jeff developed classes in mythology, Shakespeare, philosophy, and comparative religions and worked with social studies colleagues to create an interdisciplinary class called World Studies, which he team-taught successfully for 17 years. He taught Advanced Placement (AP) English classes for 21 years and served as an AP English literature reader and table leader for Educational Testing Service for many years. He adopted standards-based learning in his classroom and successfully taught students at all levels in a standards-based environment for many years.

As a Marzano Resources associate, Jeff travels around the world to work with educators on topics involving curriculum, instruction, and assessment. He is the author of Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom and coauthor of A Teacher’s Guide to Standards-Based Learning.

Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a master’s degree in English from the University of Colorado Denver, and a master’s degree in education with an endorsement in gifted education from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.