Jennifer Abrams is a professional developer for Palo Alto Unified School District and a national and international educational consultant for public and private schools, charter schools, universities and non-profits. An English teacher for nine years, Jennifer, now in her second decade in education, trains and coaches teachers and administrators on successful teaching practices, new teacher support, supervision and evaluation, generational savvy, having hard conversations and effective collaboration skills.

She works with cadres of PAUSD teacher leaders to lead sessions on Elements of Instruction and Equity=Excellence and provides all new teacher trainings and supervisor trainings at the secondary level.  Jennifer also is a lead coach for the Palo Alto – Mountain View/Los Altos Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment program. 

In her consulting work, Jennifer has presented at annual conferences such as NSDC, ASCD, NCTE, and the New Teacher Center at UC Santa Cruz Annual Symposium as well as training new teachers in the Stanford Teacher Education Program, new administrators at Santa Clara University and international school leaders at the Principals Center for International School Leadership.  Her chapter, “Habits of Mind for the School Savvy Leader” will be featured in Art Costa and Bena Kallick’s upcoming book in their Habits of Mind series, Leading and Achieving with the Habits of Mind, and her book on Having Hard Conversations will be published by Corwin Press in 2009. 

Jennifer considers herself a “voice coach”, helping teachers and administrators learn how to best use their voices, be it in a group, in front of a classroom, coaching a colleague, or in a supervisory role. 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.