Jennifer Serravallo
Jennifer Serravallo is an expert in literacy teaching strategies. She is the author of The Reading Strategies Book, The Writing Strategies Book, Understanding Texts & Readers, A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, and most recently Teaching Writing in Small Groups, all published with Heinemann. Her resources are aimed at helping teachers make goal-directed responsive strategy instruction, conferring, and small group work accessible in every classroom. Jen is a frequent invited speaker at national and regional conferences and travels throughout the US and Canada to provide full-day workshops and work with teachers and students in classrooms. She is also an experienced online educator who regularly offers live webinars and online workshops. She has also authored two self-paced asynchronous online courses: Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content and Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Matching Methods to Purposes, which you can access through her website at www.jenniferserravallo.com. Jen holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA from Teachers College, where she has also taught graduate and undergraduate classes. She began her career in education as a public school teacher in New York City and later became a staff developer through Teachers College, Columbia University. She has more than fifteen years experience helping teachers across the country to create literacy classrooms where students are joyfully engaged and the instruction is meaningfully individualized to students' goals.
You can learn more about Jen and her work at Hein.pub/serravallo, on Twitter @jserravallo, on Instagram @jenniferserravallo, or by joining The Reading and Writing Strategies Facebook Community.
To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2022, Jun 7). A conversation with Jennifer Serravallo. (Season 3, No. 2) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/0391-02D9-5459-1BB9-E67D-0