Here is a remarkable chalkboard champion: Carol Ann Jago. Carol, who graduated from University of California at Santa Barbara in 1973, worked for 32 years as a junior high school and high school English teacher in the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. She has served as a content advisor for the Advanced Placement Literature test and also on the English Advisory Committee. Formerly, she was the president of the National Council of Teachers of English and an editor for the journal for the California Association of Teachers of English. She has worked as the director of UCLA’s California Reading and Literature Project. She’s also been engaged as an educational consultant and a motivational speaker, and she has published numerous books. Carol Jago is truly an extraordinary educator.