Nancy Akhavan

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Dr. Nancy Akhavan, Ed. D. has spent more than 35 years as an educator and consultant. Dr. Akhavan is the founder of Nancy Akhavan Consulting, Inc. She recently retired from Fresno State as an Associate Professional Emerita. Dr. Akhavan has been a bilingual teacher, principal of three schools, and a district administrator of a large urban district for ELA, math, social studies, science and world languages. She also served as Assistant Superintendent Secondary Division in a large urban school district. Dr. Akhavan is recognized for her expertise in teaching literacy practices and has published thirteen books that focus on literacy instruction that increases student achievement She has worked with districts and county offices in multiple states and internationally to increase student achievement in reading, writing, and in content areas. She continues to provide professional development for leaders and teachers in literacy K-12, early literacy, content area literacy and English language development.

Expertise

Literacy
Early literacy vocabulary development
Teaching writing and reading in workshop and non workshop settings
English Language Development
Nonfiction
Standards based instruction
Coaching to improve literacy instruction for all content areas,
Helping students ‘at-promise’ or those who need additional support to succeed and English language development for students learning English.

Nancy also provides professional development to school and district leaders on systems for increasing student achievement, organizational development, coherence, leadership, literacy and equity. She provides professional learning opportunities through coaching, workshops and residencies. She also provides keynote addresses and motivational stories for teachers of all levels.

Workshops

Teaching Nonfiction Reading: Phenomenal Lessons Across Content Areas: Participants will learn strategies to teach comprehension, thinking, writing, and reading in content areas and how to plan to ensure reading and writing are built into content learning lessons