 Jennifer Abrams is an international educational and communications consultant for public and private schools, hospitals, universities and non-profits. Jennifer trains and coaches teachers, administrators, nurses, hospital personnel and others on successful instructional practices, new employee support, supervision and evaluation, generational savvy, having hard conversations and effective collaboration skills.
In Palo Alto USD (Palo Alto, CA). Jennifer led professional development sessions and provided new teacher and supervisor trainings at both the elementary and secondary level. From 2000-2011, Jennifer was lead coach for the Palo Alto-Mountain View-Los Altos-Saratoga-Los Gatos Consortium’s Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program.
In her educational consulting work, Jennifer has presented at annual conferences such as Learning Forward (formerly NSDC), ASCD, NASSP, and the New Teacher Center Annual Symposium, as well as at the Teachers' and Principals' Centers for International School Leadership Summer Institutes. Jennifer's communications consulting in the health care sector includes training and coaching work at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and Stanford Hospitals.
Her publications include Having Hard Conversations published by Corwin Press in 2009, the chapter, “Habits of Mind for the School Savvy Leader” in Art Costa’s and Bena Kallick’s book, Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind: 16 Essential Characteristics for Success, and contributions to the book, Mentors in the Making: Developing New Leaders for New Teachers published by Teachers College Press. Her upcoming book with co-author Valerie Von Frank is titled Generational Savvy: How to be Effective with Educators of All Generations to be published by Corwin Press in 2013.
Jennifer has been featured as a generationally savvy expert for "Tune in to What the New Generation of Teachers Can Do," the lead article in the May 2008 edition of National Staff Development Council's Tools for Schools newsletter, republished in Phi Delta Kappan, May 2011, and has been interviewed by the Ministry of Education in Ontario, Canada regarding her Having Hard Conversations work for their Leadership Matters: Supporting Open-to-Learning Conversations video series.
Jennifer considers herself a “voice coach,” helping others learn how to best use their voices, be it in a group, in front of a classroom, coaching a colleague, in a supervisory role and most recently in writing for the stage, as she does as a Board Member of the National New Play Network. Jennifer holds a Master’s degree in Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Tufts University. She lives in Palo Alto, CA. She can be reached at jennifer@jenniferabrams.com. |
