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The professional development for online teaching and learning that you've been asking for An unprecedented pandemic may take the teacher out of the classroom, but it doesn't take the classroom out of the teacher! Now that you're making the shift to online teaching, it's time to answer your biggest questions about remote, digitally based instruction: How do I build and nurture relationships with students and their at-home adults from afar? How do I adapt my best teaching to an online setting? How do I keep a focus on students and their needs when they aren't in front of me? Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online gives you concise, doable answers based on her own experiences and those of the teachers, administrators, and coaches she has communicated with during the pandemic.
About the Author
Follow Jen on Twitter (@jserravallo) and learn more from her website/blog: www.jenniferserravallo.com.
Jennifer Serravallo is literacy consultant and frequent speaker at state and national conferences. She is the author of the new THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) as well as the New York Times Bestseller, THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (2015) . Her other popular Heinemann titles include TEACHING READING IN SMALL GROUPS (2010) , CONFERRING WITH READERS (2007) , and THE LITERACY TEACHER'S PLAYBOOKS, for grades K-2 and grades 3-6 (2013, 2012) . She is also the author of the Heinemann Digital Campus Course entitled Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Matching Methods to Purposes.
Jen worked for eight years as a staff developer and national consultant at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. In this capacity, she helped urban, suburban, and rural schools implement exceptional literacy instruction through reading and writing workshops. Before that, she was a NYC public school teacher in two Title I schools with large class sizes, high numbers of ELLs, and an enormous range of learners. These experiences galvanized her to write her professional books and to create other professional resources for teachers, including the AEP and REVERE award-winning Independent Reading Assessment for fiction (Scholastic, 2012) and nonfiction (Scholastic, 2013) .
Jen holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA from Teachers College, where she has also taught graduate and undergraduate classes on urban education reform and children's literature.
