Extraordinary Educator

Jen Stocklin


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Barn-raising discussions, project-based learning, nonfiction literacy. Award-winning AP English teacher Jen Stocklin brings infectious passion to it all. Jen has brought students to the Mississippi Delta to learn about Faulkner, to the NYTimes offices to learn about journalism. She’s had students to study the philosophy of education and write letters to legislators about charter school laws. And yet she still speaks so vulnerably, about her struggles as young teacher, about being tracked as a young girl in Ohio and how that still affects her thinking on AP for All today. We’ll also hear about her fascinating experiences as a college student at St John’s College in Maryland and as a masters student with the legendary Eleanor Duckworth. Jen got her start with Teach for America and then KIPP in Helena, Arkansas. Later, she worked for several years at KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate just north of Boston as a high school English teacher and humanities department chair. Since then, she has served as Editorial Director for High School Curriculum nationwide for the KIPP Foundation and now works with KIPP charter schools across the country.
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