About Me

Giorgio Morandi

With nearly two decades of working in general and children’s book writing/ editing and publishing,  I found myself more involved in creating curriculum for students with difficulties in learning. This newer field made me realize  it was time to make some changes.

Those decades in book publishing taught me a lot. Children’s book publishing involved working with well-known illustrators and presenting new book and story ideas at Bologna and Frankfurt International Bookfairs. Seeing the value of a great story, I started and ran a company—Redpath Press— for seven years. The company marketed great short stories by famous authors in beautiful formats with elegant illustrations  for the book and card market.

Good things come, good things go. Time to change.

I soon saw that it would be good to combine my publishing experience with more education and so be able to delve into the broad sweep of curriculum--especially how it related to the ways in which we learn. So in 1994, I moved from Minneapolis to New York to pursue a doctorate in philosophy and education at Teachers College Columbia University.

I raised the last of my three children in New York while studying for the doctorate. After receiving the doctorate in 1998, I turned immediately to applying this education to the slice of publishing called curriculum development.

This new arena called for a new set of skills—or combined skills.  I learned to apply the rigors of academic discipline to writing a second-grade reading lesson, or editing seventh-grade social studies test prep books, managing an ELL tenth grade literature series, or editing a grad student’s dissertation or a professor’s conference presentation.

Curriculum and academic publishing may not be as glamorous as working with a fully-illustrated children’s book. Yet in curriculum development, the side benefit and goal of watching learning occur between a good teacher and a willing student engaged in excellent, solid, and innovative curriculum--is riveting.

My varied background in publishing and in curriculum development allows for rewarding work opportunities. It also gives me further space to explore how a sense of story, or narrative, often structures how we learn. The place of story in our lives and in how we learn continues to intrigue me more each day.

I am happiest (professionally speaking) when writing, editing, working with a team of smart, humble, and funny editors, teachers, administrators, assistants, graphic and technical experts. I am always seeking to contribute to any individual or company’s efforts to use words to problem-solve and/or to enlighten our world.

Contact me with a project that I could help you deliver to your chosen audience.