Jill Lovorn Gough
Learner, Teacher, Facilitator

Trinity School
Atlanta, GA
United States

jplgough@gmail.com
jgough@trinityatl.org

Jill Gough, Director of Teaching and Learning at Trinity School since 2012, facilitates professional development opportunities, builds teacher-administrator partnerships to facilitate a collaborative learning community, and leads educator observations and assessments. She is a regular on the professional development circuit, speaking at several conferences across the country and leading dozens of webinars every year on subjects ranging from promoting productive struggle in the classroom to mathematizing read alouds. An expert in mathematical teaching best practices and the integration of technology in the classroom, Gough regularly teams up with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics to deliver professional learning opportunities. In addition, she is a National T³ Instructor, working with Texas Instruments and T³ to deliver quality professional development for educators interested in using technology to facilitate learning and assessment that is interactive, dynamic, and collaborative. An avid sketchnote artist, Gough’s sketches have been featured by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, KSU Conference, and various other conferences

With more than 30 years of experience in education, Gough spent 11 years at The Westminster Schools, where she co-taught Synergy, a non-departmentalized, non-graded, transdisciplinary, community-issues-problem-solving course; facilitated the Junior High Math/Science Professional Learning Community; and served as the Chief Technology Integration Specialist for the junior high. She also spent many years as an adjunct professor of mathematics at Mississippi College and as an advanced-level math teacher at The Kiski School of Pennsylvania and various public school in Mississippi. A winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Gough has received numerous other awards, including the NAIS Teacher of the Future and the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished Middle School Mathematics Teaching. She holds a Master of Computer Science in Mathematics and Computing Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Mississippi College.

Work History:

Trinity School
Atlanta, GA, United States
August 2012 to Present

Director of Teaching and Learning

Teachers Teaching with Technology, Texas Instruments
Dallas, TX, United States
1998 – Present

The Westminster Schools
Atlanta, GA, United States
Aug 2001 – June 2012

Synergy co-facilitator, PLC co-director, Chief Technology Integration Specialist, Algebra teacher, Calculus teacher

• • Co-facilitate Synergy 8 with Bo Adams.  Synergy 8 is a non-departmentalized, non-graded, transdisciplinary, community-issues-problem-solving course.  (2010 – 2012)
  • Co-direct our Professional Learning Communities with Bo Adams.  (2008 – 2012)
  • 2011 – 2012  Serve as the Chief Technology Integration Specialist.  Work with our community to implement the Learning for Life vision statement as we become a 1:1 MacBook school.
  • Co-facilitate the Faculty Assessment and Annual Review Plan task force with Thad Persons (2011 – 2012; member since creation of task force in 2009)
  • Co-author of the Learning for Life vision statement with Thad Persons and Whit McKnight (Spring, 2011)
  • Co-facilitate the 2010-2011 Center for Teaching Learning and the Brain Cohort with Donya Kemp (2010 – 2011)
  • Work directly with students as homeroom advisor (2004 – Present)
  • Teach Algebra I (2004 – 2011)
  • Teach Calculus (2003 – 2010)
  • Teach Algebra II Honors (2003-2004)
  • Chairman of the Best Practices Committee and co-author of the Faculty Best Practices statement (2007 – 2008)