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Jenny Taylor

Jenny has over a decade of experience in education policy and research. She has worked with states and districts on the development and implementation of college and career readiness policies, especially around the implementation of rigorous standards and high-quality instructional materials. She has extensive knowledge about K–12 standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems nationwide. Additionally, she has conducted research for school districts to address pressing needs in those districts. Jenny received her B.A. in English and education from Bucknell University and her M.Ed. in education policy from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Jenny Taylor

Keep, Stop, Start: Preparing for a State Assessment

This Month’s Focus Our focus this month turns to state testing. Testing occurs each spring, but for many educators testing feels particularly...

How To Support Math Students With The Universal Design For Learning Principles

How do UDL Principles Apply to the Design of the Cockpit of a Fighter Jet and a Math Lesson? First, let’s provide a bit of context. In this popular...

Improving Readability In Math Without Compromising Rigor

How do You Improve Math Text Accessibility? Imagine the experience of a beginning reader, a child with dyslexia, or a multilingual learner...

All Students Can Read Complex Texts

Research shows that meeting students where they are by providing easy-to-access texts will not prepare students for reading beyond the classroom....

How To Make English Language Arts Accessible For Multilingual Learners

After spending many years teaching grade 4, I took a leap into a middle school English learner teaching position. Within a week, I had a grade 5...

How To Support Multilingual Learners In Engaging In Math Conversations In The Classroom

One sunny September morning, I called my grade 4 class together to the carpet to start our math lesson for the day. I displayed the four numbers...

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