Kim Jacobs /Maddie James

Current

Director/Special Projects at National Center for Family Literacy
Author/Novelist at Self Employed (Self-employed)
Freelance Writer at Self Employed

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Past

Coordinator, Infant/Early Childhood Services programs at Woodford County Public Schools, Versailles, KY
Teacher at Scott County Public Schools, Georgetown, KY

Education

University of Kentucky
Morehead State University

Connections

39 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

Kim Jacobs /Maddie James’s Summary

Kim Jacobs has worked in the education field for 30 years, as a classroom teacher, direct services provider, program administrator/director, and as a provider of professional development (training and technical assistance), working in both public and private/non-profit sectors.

Aligned with her educational experiences lies a passion for books and writing. Always eager to write a research paper (imagine that), Kim loves putting words together to both inform and entertain. She has published professionally as a freelance writer since 1990 and a romance novelist since 1997. She has several dozen non-fiction articles/chapters/manuals to her credit and over 20 novel/novella length works of fiction to date.

Kim Jacobs /Maddie James’s Specialties:

Professional development, training, technical assistance, consulting, program management, writing (fiction & non-fiction), speaking

Kim Jacobs /Maddie James’s Experience

Director/Special Projects

National Center for Family Literacy

(Education Management industry)

February 2000 — Present (9 years 10 months)

Current Position:Project Director for a Federal Project with the Bureau of Indian Education.
Previous: Sr. Project Manager, the Family Literacy Academy funded by the Annenberg Foundation; Research, Design and Development projects for professional development; Training and Technical Assistance provider for the Head Start Family Literacy Project funded by the Head Start Bureau/Health and Human Services.
Author/Novelist
Self Employed (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

July 1997 — Present (12 years 5 months)

Novels published with Resplendence Publishing, Kensington Books and Thorndike Press
Freelance Writer

Self Employed

(Writing and Editing industry)

January 1988 — Present (21 years 11 months)

Published author of fiction, non-fiction, academic articles and books.
Coordinator, Infant/Early Childhood Services programs

Woodford County Public Schools, Versailles, KY

(Education Management industry)

September 1996 — February 2000 (3 years 6 months)

Program coordinator and direct services provider for children and families ages birth to five years, including home visitation, preschool, Kindermusik, drop-in-and-play, teen parent programs, family literacy programs, parent education. Collaborator with Head Start, family resource center, public and private preschool programs, social services, extension, etc. Member of local interagency council, Woodford County, Kentucky
Teacher

Scott County Public Schools, Georgetown, KY

(Education Management industry)

August 1979 — June 1996 (16 years 11 months)

Vocational Home Economics teacher, middle school and high school, teaching child development, parent and family, foods and nutrition coursework. Curriculum development for comprehensive early childhood tech prep and co-operative education programs, director of teen parent program in in-school child care program. Leader of various school extra-curricular activities for students.Recipient of teacher/student visitation to sister city school in Tahara-cho, Japan.

Kim Jacobs /Maddie James’s Education

University of Kentucky

M.S. , Education , 1980 — 1982

Emphasis on Family Studies
Morehead State University

B.S. , Education , 1975 — 1979

Emphasis on family and consumer sciences, child development, foods and nutrition