Jennifer Abrams
Bio:
Formerly a high school English teacher, new teacher coach and professional development facilitator in Palo Alto Unified School District (Palo Alto, CA), Jennifer Abrams is currently a communications consultant and author who works with educators and others in schools on new teacher and employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations and creating identity safe workplaces.
Jennifer’s publications include Having Hard Conversations, The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicate, Collaborate & Create Community, Hard Conversations Unpacked - the Whos, Whens and What Ifs, and Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives. Her upcoming book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work, will be out in April 2021.
Jennifer has been invited to keynote, facilitate and coach at schools and conferences worldwide and is honored to have been named one of the “18 Women All K-12 Educators Should Know,” by Education Week’s ‘Finding Common Ground’’ blog. More about Jennifer’s work can be found at her website, www.jenniferabrams.com, and on Twitter @jenniferabrams.
About the Visit to AISG:
Jennifer Abrams visited us virtually twice over two weeks, once meeting with our parents and once with our Upper Secondary students. Around 60 parents joined in to learn more about how to successfully communicate with the school about their concerns. Jennifer gave the students a workshop on how they can advocate themselves and specifics ways to be an upstander.