Classroom teacher and curriculum consultant
“Because of my collaboration with Jenelle, I have been able to grow in my knowledge of disciplinary literacy and adolescent literacy needs. Jenelle’s wealth of knowledge supports my classroom practice and my ability to lead professional learning with my colleagues. I appreciate our partnership and how she offers a complementary lens to my experience and knowledge. Jenelle’s expertise and experience facilitating learning grounds me and allows me to focus on what strategies and scaffolds best support student learning. I trust Jenelle and am grateful for our collegial relationship.”
Classroom teacher
“Jenelle has a vast amount of knowledge about instructional practices and resources to help design curriculum, but her ability and willingness to help me organize all of my ideas and resources was paramount to helping me successfully plan a new unit. I often find myself with too much information, too many resources, and too many notes and ideas, and then I’m stuck. Jenelle stands out because she took all of my messy thoughts and notes and helped me organize them in a way that made sense. From there, I could easily design a coherent and effective unit.”
International Baccalaureate coordinator
“Jenelle has a vast array of knowledge and experience, which allows her to easily adapt and support in numerous settings. What really sets her apart though is her ability to understand what is needed and offer support in a way that allows for those she is working with to lean into their own strengths to reach their intended goals and objectives.”
Curriculum director/coordinator
Because of my consultation with Jenelle, I have been able to grow in my confidence and ability to strategize leading complex curriculum projects. She’s helped me better understand how to set the stage for the day’s inservice committee work, how to facilitate collaboration around parameters and decision making for the work. Jenelle is an empathetic and patient collaborator!
Instructional coach
“Jenelle is an expert in her field and is always willing to share her knowledge in ways that can be easily understood by others. She is always professional and collaborative and responsive to the group with whom she is working.”
Central office administrator
“Jenelle has been an incredible gift to our district this year with helping us to grow in our understanding of Disciplinary Literacy at the secondary level. The planning sessions that she was a part of with us were always productive. She asked us powerful questions that got us thinking about our vision and beliefs regarding Disciplinary Literacy so that we could be purposeful and productive when planning to lead professional learning about this topic this year. Her supportive and positive demeanor made us feel safe to be vulnerable when sharing the challenges were facing, but also excited to share our successes because she celebrated them right along with us. She always had great ideas to share with our leadership team that we implemented often during professional learning with our staff. When she led professional learning with our staff our secondary staff was extremely engaged in the learning. We are appreciative of all of her help and support this year.”
“Jenelle’s strengths in professional learning are her knowledge of the ELA standards and curriculum and her excellent knowledge base as a middle level teacher. My staff is comfortable with Jenelle and has appreciated her approach to helping us explore our writing instruction in an informative way.
Building administrator
“Because of my collaboration with Jenelle, I have been able to grow in my knowledge of how to implement and promote Disciplinary Literacy practices a a building level administrator. I appreciate Jenelle being an accountability partner in the way she provides constructive feedback and helpful suggestions. Out of all the consultants that I have worked with, Jenelle has proven to be the most knowledgeable and helpful.”
Building administrator
Jenelle is a fantastic collaborator and leader of professional learning. She accomplishes this with her thoroughness. I’ve always found Jenelle to be someone who helps you along in developing the vision that you want in your building, she is willing to lead, co-lead, or cheer you on from the sideline as you bring this vision to your staff. What I really admire about Jenelle’s process is she supportively move you forward by asking important questions and challenges you to think about how you’ll arrive at your vision. Jenelle is also someone who helps me as a building leader move our staff ahead in digestible chunks, at times helping me hit the brakes when I may have wanted to go too far too fast knowing that it could comprise the vision. Finally, I appreciate Jenelle always trying to help me broaden my “linear” thinking approach and helping me consider different ways of incorporating essential elements of our work.
Instructional coach
Because of my collaboration with Jenelle, I have been able to grow in my knowledge of Disciplinary Literacy and my skill set related to coaching teachers to implement the Essential Practices of Disciplinary Literacy. Jenelle’s consulting is unique because she authentically listens, thoughtfully probes, and consistently communicates. Working with Jenelle always feels like a partnership and I fully trust her to guide our team.
Additional Letters of Recommendation
Executive Director of Instructional Services and Secondary Options, Shiawassee Regional Education Service District
Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies, Grand Valley State University
Literacy Consultant, Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency
Supervisor of Instructional Services, Berkley Public Schools