Testimonials

  • "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."

    — Deb Armfield, Executive Director of Curriculum, Assessment & Professional Learning, Timberlane Regional School District

  • "Before Jody came to our school as a literacy consultant, we had no literacy program in place to support our striving young adult readers. Jody partnered with us--giving us all of her expertise, experience, and infectious energy as a staff developer and literacy coach--to nurture a culture of literacy among students, teachers, counselors, and administrators and lead us in developing a coordinated model of culturally responsive and sustaining literacy instruction to serve our students. She truly is an agent of transformational change."

    — Jordan Yarwood, Citywide Assistant Principal of Literacy Pathways to Graduation, New York City Department of Education