Karin Tulchinsky Cohen

Karin Tulchinsky Cohen is currently the Director of Training for the Weinfeld Education Group. Karin develops and implements trainings in the areas of curriculum and instruction, evaluation and leadership, and special needs advocacy. Karin has been an instructor on the university level where she has taught courses on Smart Kids with Learning Differences.

Karin served as the Director of Educational Administration for Sulam, Inc., a nonprofit program for children with special needs. In this capacity, she provided administrative leadership to support and evaluate teachers, worked closely with the mainstream partner school, and managed a variety of different aspects of the K-12 program.

Karin was previously employed by Montgomery County Public Schools as a Staff Development Content Specialist focusing on Gifted and Talented Education, K- 12. As a Content Specialist, Karin’s support to schools took many forms: including training, supporting individual schools’ efforts to meet the needs of a variety of learners and supporting teachers to nurture the gifts of underserved populations.

Karin spent many years in Baltimore County Public Schools where she worked in a variety of capacities. As a Resource Teacher, she wrote curriculum and supported teachers of Gifted and Talented Education programs, in her role as a Department Chair in a large high school she worked with new teachers and taught several different classes, and she was also a classroom teacher for grades 6 -12, social studies and English. Karin has also taught children identified for Special Education services in inclusion programs.

Karin has been the recipient of three fellowships to Asia including a Fulbright Hays scholarship to China in 1997. Karin’s interests include creative writing and yoga.