Speaking Topics
- Exploring ways coaches and teachers can incorporate technology to cultivate and innovate teacher learning communities
- Making teacher learning more meaningful, relevant, and student-centered through the use of the right tools
- Focusing on collaboration to impact and elevate student learning
- Redesigning your PD plans to leverage the power of personalized literacy coaching
Speaker Profile
Stephanie Affinito is an educator in the Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning at the University at Albany in New York. She has a deep love of literacy coaching and supporting teachers' learning through technology. Stephanie creates spaces for authentic teacher learning that build expertise, spark professional curiosity and foster intentional reflection to reimagine teaching and learning for students. She is the author of Literacy Coaching: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Digital Tools and Technology and Leading Literate Lives: Habits and Mindsets for Reimagining Classroom Practice. She presents regularly at state and national conferences on literacy coaching, teacher collaboration, and supporting teachers' reading, writing, and learning through innovative technology.
You can connect with her online at stephanieaffinito.com and on Twitter at @AffinitoLit.
Grades: K–6
