Dr. Linda Karges-Bone

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Linda Karges-Bone ( www.educationinsite.com)

Linda Karges-Bone, Ed.D. is a professor in the School of Education at Charleston Southern University, in Charleston, South Carolina, where she prepares future teachers and writes frequently for educational and parenting journals and other media. Dr. Bone is also the director of Education InSite ( www.educationinsite.com) a consulting firm. She has trained thousands of teachers at the graduate and undergraduate level and done workshops and keynotes in 33 states. The author of 28 books, including Differentiated Pathways of the Brain; Breaking Brain Barriers; More Than Pink and Blue: It Is the Gray that Matters; The Educator's Guide to Grants, The Best Lesson Plan Book Ever, A Checklist for Everything, Beyond Hands On: Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Music to Enhance Learning, Grant Writing for Teachers, Middle Grade Assessment, A Guide to Long-Range Planning for Schools, and Poems With a Purpose. Her most recent work, under development now is Brain-Framing: Instructional Planning With the Brain in Mind. Dr. Karges-Bone speaks and writes frequently on issues of curriculum, instruction, assessment, gender differences affecting learning, and learning styles. Her work has been published in The Reading Teacher, The SCACTE Journal, American Baby, Growing Parent, The Journal of Staff Development , The Journal of Early Education and Family Review, The Alpha Delta Kappan, The Charleston Regional Business Journal, Christian Parenting Today, Home Life Magazine, Gifted Child Today, Education Forum, Baby Talk, Dimensions, Lowcountry Parent, The New Day, Natural Awakenings, and other professional and popular publications. She is a frequent television guest discussing issues pertinent to family and education and is the creator of the radio messages "Prayerful Parenting", heard nationally on Family Radio Network . Dr. Karges-Bone has written dozens of children's stories published in magazines for teachers and children, and is the author of a series of children's stories on character education. Dr. Karges-Bone earned a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Carolina, where she received the Tucker Award for "Outstanding Doctoral Candidate" and is a former public and private school teacher, holding current certification in the areas of special education, elementary education, and early childhood education. She was named South Carolina's Woman of Achievement in 1999 and nominated for Alpha Delta Kappa's Honored Educator in 2006. Her current areas of interest include Gender Differences in Teaching and Learning, Brain-Based Classroom Management Strategies, Work-Family Relations, Creativity, Learning Styles, Corporate Motivation, and Differentiated Instruction. She was named to the Gurian Institute's Advisory Board in 2006 and is a consultant for the National Business Institute and Staff Development for Educators. Dr. Karges-Bone lives in coastal South Carolina with her husband, a field engineer for General Electric Healthcare Systems and their two daughters, Carolyn, an attorney in Columbia, SC, Audrey Jayne, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, and a rescue dog named "T.S. Eliot".