Teacher and teacher educator who specializes in adolescence, culturally-affirming social emotional learning, and culturally responsive and sustaining instruction
Explore Jody’s website to learn more about her pedagogies, research, and ways that she can support you and/or your school communities!
Justice is what love looks like in public.
- Cornel West
Services
Jody is available to do on-site or remote coaching as well as large or small group presentations.
Consulting
Curriculum Development
Coaching
Speaking Engagements
Deb Armfield, Executive Director of Curriculum, Assessment & Professional Learning, Timberlane Regional School District
"Jody’s ability to work with adult learners in a professional setting is unparalleled. Her expertise in adolescent literacy is seconded only by her ability to motivate teachers in all content areas to become teachers of reading. Jody was instrumental in our district-level integration of content literacy in grades 6-12. Her strategies for engaging students in ways that made sense to teachers was extraordinary. Jody is a gifted and motivating professional educator."
Educate for Action
Jody created the Educate for Action website in November 2016 in collaboration with other BIPOC and anti-racist educational scholars and educators. This website provides resources for youth development professionals (i.e., teachers, parents, students, counselors & social workers, educational staff, administration, & community-based organizations) to better serve the young people with whom they serve, especially youth from communities who have been historically marginalized in our school communities and beyond.
Let’s connect.
Interested in working together? Contact Jody here or email her at jody.polleck@gmail.com