Meet Nancy Akhavan
Dr. Nancy Akhavan is a sought after author and speaker who works
with teachers and leaders across the U.S. Nationally,
Nancy provides professional development and consulting to
organizations, schools and school districts.
She coaches school leaders and leadership teams to develop effective instructional practices focused on student achievement, to create systems for organizational effectiveness in management and to create coherence within school districts and schools. She has also provided professional development to school and district leaders on leadership, literacy and equity and has helped hundreds of teachers in their classrooms. Dr. Akhavan is certified as an online instructor through the CSU Chancellors Quality Learning and Teaching Program to design and deliver online, blended and flipped courses.
Nancy works with teachers directly on literacy and pedagogical practices in all content areas. She routinely speaks on the topics of literacy, early literacy, nonfiction reading and writing, content area reading, teaching writing and reading in workshop and non workshop settings, vocabulary development and also speaks on how to help students ‘at-promise’ or those who need additional support to succeed and English language development for students learning English. Nancy provides training across the nation to teachers grades K-12.
Nancy has written a number of professional books on best practices in literacy instruction, teaching struggling readers, and high quality instruction for English learners. Her books are published by Benchmark, Corwin Press, Heinemann and Scholastic publishers.
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From a Teacher
Every time I leave after being with you gals: I’m energized and ready to take something back immediately to my class. So, kudos to all of you and all the great work you are doing! Please keep in touch. ”
Teacher
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Dayna Mitchell, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services
Curriculum & Instruction
Cinnamon Scheufele
Executive Director, Curriculum and Instruction
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From a Teacher
“The last 3 days were amazing and I’m telling all my teacher friends about it! Your teaching style and coaching style is super for us!
Every time I leave after being with you gals: I’m energized and ready to take something back immediately to my class. So, kudos to all of you and all the great work you are doing! Please keep in touch. ”
Teacher
Curriculim & Instruction
“Nancy Akhavan has brought together a set of carefully designed lessons that address the specific language-acquisition needs of English Language Learners. Each lesson is designed to help multilingual learners acquire English through content, which supports lesson planning and delivery. Dr. Akhavan’s work ensures success by demystifying the process of teaching and learning. ”
Cinnamon Scheufele
Executive Director, Curriculum and Instruction
Educational Services
“Our district has been working on developing a systematic approach to improving literacy outcomes for students across all grade and content levels. Dr. Akhavan’s work in our district strategically supports not only building the capacity of our TK-12 teachers’ evidence-based literacy knowledge and skills, but also building the capacity of our site leaders’ instructional leadership as it relates specifically to small group literacy instruction and in-class intervention strategies.”
Dayna Mitchell, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services
Educator
Teacher Educator
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