We make a better tomorrow by doing it today.
Professional Learning for K-12 and University Educators:
All the Uncomfortable Things: Knowing How to Talk and Teach About Issues of the Body, Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships
The Reading Turn-Around: Teaching Readers in Meaningful Ways
Interdisciplinary and Project-Based Inquiry Learning
Teaching Writing to Change the World
The Other Side of Poverty In Schools
I am hopeful and optimistic about the world we can make together one conversation at a time, one mindful pause at a time, one shared story at a time, one shifted classroom practice at a time, and one changed school policy at a time.
Whether it’s digging into the complexities of teaching K-16 reading, writing, literacies, interdisciplinary curriculum, and place-based learning and projects, or learning how to skillfully honor and facilitate conversations and inquiry about social and political issues that arise every day in schools, I can work with you to foster open, beautiful, hopeful spaces for powerful learning and living.
Workshops, long-term sustained professional learning, reading groups, inquiry circles, writing groups, and more are all options for being serious (and having serious fun!) about bringing our best selves to expand literacies in powerful ways for everyone.
What do educators say?
“It was magic.”
“The best professional learning in my career.”
“I’ve never had professional learning where I felt completely included.”
“I’ve never felt so challenged and also so comforted.”
You’ve got this, and I can help. I’ve been working with teachers for more than 20 years about how to teach our earliest readers to read and how to invite reluctant teenage writers back into the fold of school. Teachers are our most important intellectuals in a society given your influence in shaping children and youth, and I can help you expand your understanding about literacy learning, literacies in the content areas, and ways children and youth get “stuck” in patterns of schooling. I can help you work to be more in-the-moment, and prepared for planned and improvisational teaching and facilitating even the most challenging topics that children and youth bring up in schools every single day.