Meet Ellin Oliver Keene

Ellin Oliver Keene

Ellin has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, non-profit director and adjunct professor of reading and writing.  For sixteen years she directed staff development initiatives at the Denver-based Public Education & Business Coalition.  She served as Deputy Director and Director of Literacy and Staff Development for the Cornerstone Project at the University of Pennsylvania for 4 years. Ellin works with schools and districts throughout the country and abroad.  Her emphasis is long-term, school-based professional development and strategic planning for literacy learning.

How We Can Work Together

  • Learning Intensives

    Customized, in-person, long-range planning

  • Workshops and Inservices

    Single or multiple day in-person collaboration

  • Online Professional Learning

    Customized online learning

Second Episode of “In Conversation” is live!

Now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 school year. Apply to receive on-site professional learning pro bono except for travel expenses.

Latest Book ~

Latest Book ~

The Literacy Studio. Tools to re-think your workshop structure and strategically plan for integrating reading and writing. Isn’t it time?

  • “Keene turns her thinking into something tangible, something educators can grab onto and use straightaway. I finished the book (Engaging Children) on a Tuesday, I integrated the four pillars of engagement she illustrates—intellectual urgency, emotional resonance, perspective bending, and the world of the aesthetic—into my instruction on Wednesday… Ellin Oliver Keene is just the kind of thinker our profession needs. She has a thought process that leads no stone unturned. She questions our collective assumptions and her own. Somehow, Keene leads us closer to the answers while leaving us with more and more complex questions that those with which we began.”

    Aeriale Johnson, Staff Developer, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

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