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Nancy Akhavan

Speaking Topics

• Effective Content and Comprehension Instruction
• Vocabulary Instruction to Ensure Learning for All Students
• Working with English Learners in the Classroom
• Planning Units of Study in Reading, Writing, Vocabulary and Content Areas
• Planning and Teaching Effective Mini-Lessons For All Subject Areas
• Effective Leadership at all Levels: Inspiring Teaching and Learning That Matters

Speaker Bio

Nancy Akhavan is an educational leader and currently Assistant Superintendent, Secondary Division in Fresno Unified School District, a large urban district in California’s Central Valley. She has worked as a principal, elementary school bilingual teacher, bilingual resource teacher, and professional developer for the past twenty years. Nancy is passionate about providing a high quality education for all children through authentic, purposeful instruction. She has provided staff development training to teachers grades K-12 on topics as Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English, English Language Development, literacy, and standards based instruction. She also has provided training to teacher leaders and administrators in systems and culture change, school reform, and classroom based professional development.

Nancy was formerly Principal of Pinedale Elementary School in Clovis Unified School District, and Lee Richmond Elementary School in Hanford, California. Her books include:  How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible (2004) , Help! My Kids Don’t All Speak English: How to Set Up a Language Workshop in Your Linguistically Diverse Classroom(2006), The Title I Teacher’s Guide to Teaching Reading, K-3 (2008), and  The Teaching Writing in a Title I School, K-3 (2009).

Nancy Akhavan is Heinemann Professional Development provider.

Grades: K - 12