About

Jennifer Orr teaches fourth graders in a suburban, public school in northern Virginia.
National Board Certified Teacher – middle childhood generalist, 2002, renewed 2012

Publications:
We’re Gonna Keep on Talking: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom, co-authored with Matthew R. Kay
Demystifying Discussion: How to Teach and Assess Academic Conversation Skills, K-5
Contributed to Larry Ferlazzo’s Education Week blog: Seeing Families as ‘Co-Creators’ of Our Schools
Your Classroom is Not Your iPhone for ASCD Express, January 2016
Raising Our Teacher Voices: A Call for a New Generation of Leadership, 2015
Making a Habit of “How Do You Know?” in ASCD’s Education Update, December 2013
A Picture is Worth 100 Math Ideas, coauthored with Jennifer Suh, in Teaching Children Mathematics, March 2013
For Teachinghistory.org: Recording Experiences with First Graders, Making Technology Work for Primary Students, Starts the Year, Teaching Failure, Teaching Thanksgiving, Questioning Columbus, Making History Books, Data Retrieval Charts, Teaching Heroes, and Primary Sources in Primary Classrooms

Awards and recognitions:
ASCD Emerging Leader, 2013
Winner of ISTE’s Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence in Technology-Based PK-2 Education, 2012

Podcasts and other recordings:
Participated in ASCD’s Whole Child Symposium on Teacher Leadership, Fall 2014
On ASCD’s Whole Child Podcast, Early Childhood Education: Balancing Expectations and What Young Learners Really Need, 2013

Conference Presentations:

• Academic Talk: Co-Constructing Mathematical Ideas Through Conversation, NCTM Annual Conference, March 2018
• Supporting Writers, VSTE, December 2013, and Language and Learning, March 2014
• Assessment Driving Instruction, VSTE, December 2013
• Power of Audience, VATE, October 2012
• Power of Reflection, ASCD national conference, March 2012
• Little Ones Learning Math Using Technology, VCTM, March 2012
• Technology for Tots, VSTE, December 2011
• Thinking About Thinking Skills, NCSS national conference , December 2011 and Educon, January 2012
• Collaborative Assessment, ASCD national conference, March 2011
• Collaborative Assessment, Educon, January 2011
• Technology in K-5, ISTE national conference, June 2009, 2010, 2011