About Dinah Zike

Dinah Zike is an award-winning author, educator, and inventor known for designing three-dimensional hands-on manipulatives and graphic organizers known as Foldables^TM, that are used nationally and internationally by teachers, parents and educational publishing companies.

As a frequent keynote speaker and continuing education consultant, she conducts powerful seminars for over 50,000 teachers and parents every year nationally and internationally. She also conducts lively staff development in-service for school districts, student teacher programs, and university continuing education programs. She is a feature speaker and presenter at national conferences, such as NSTA, IRA, NCTM, NCSS, and state and regional conferences.

Dinah was awarded the Council for Elementary Science International's Science Advocate Award, an award given to only six individuals in the last 25 years. Past recipients of the award include TV's Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Ms. Zike is currently an author and consultant for the entire range of K-12 textbooks published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill and Macmillan-McGraw-Hill and is under contract with Ryerson (a McGraw-Hill company) in Canada. Additionally she has published a large array of popular resource books and educational materials for her own company, Dinah-Might Adventures, LP, available online as well as in bookstores.