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Georgia Heard

Georgia Heard is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project where she worked as senior staff developer in the New York City schools for seven years. She is currently a frequent keynote speaker at conferences, and a consultant and visiting author in school districts throughout the U.S, Canada and around the world.

She is the author of numerous professional books on teaching writing including her most recent A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades (Stenhouse, 2009) and Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School (Heinemann) which was cited by Instructor Magazine as “One of the Ten Best Books Every Teacher Should Read.” She has also authored many children’s books including her most recent Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems (Roaring Brook Press, 2009).

Products PD Resources

Climb Inside a Poem	Awakening the Heart	Writing Toward Home	For the Good of the Earth and Sun
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Speakers

Invite Georgia Heard to speak at your school, district, or conference through Heinemann Speakers.

Webinars

Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Meeting the Common Core State Standards in Grades K-3 - 3:00pm-4:15pm EST (Starting Dec. 6, 2011)

Seminars

Teaching Revision Techniques

Podcasts

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey share tips and principles of vocabulary instruction from their latest ... Making Word Learning Fun for All Students

Donald Graves (1930-2010), a long-time University of New Hampshire literature professor and prolific... Secrets of a Master Writer: An Interview with Donald Graves

Jim Burke shares how a question-driven classroom engages adolescents of the digital age inside schoo... How big questions engage and motivate students who have grown up digitally

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