ASCD Faculty Bio

Everett Kline

Kline is an educational consultant specializing in Understanding by Design, standards-based assessment reform, curriculum that focuses on promoting understanding, implementing authentic assessments, and applying scoring rubrics based on rigorous performance standards. His most recent work has been as a facilitator to schools and districts as they have begun the multiyear process of integrating these changes into their culture. He has been a classroom teacher, building program leader, and assistant superintendent for instruction and learning for the South Orange-Maplewood (N.J.) School District.

Kline has served as a consultant and presenter for ASCD, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the College Board, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Teachers College at Columbia University, and the Stevens Institute of Technology. He has done extensive work in the state of North Carolina as it worked, under Governor Jim Hunt's leadership, to define more rigorous performance standards for all students. He was also director of the New Jersey Consortium on Assessment.

Kline is a coauthor of Transforming Schools: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement, chosen by ASCD as a member book for Spring 2004. He also authored an article on curriculum change in Primary Voices, a journal of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Kline holds a bachelor's from the University of Chicago and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Ford Fellow. He has also studied at Princeton University, where he was designated a master teacher.