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Team

Pamela Chu-Sheriff
Education Consultant

Pamela Chu-Sheriff has been a teacher and leader in urban education for nearly 20 years and is the co-author of Restorative Practices That Heal School Communities: A Universal Design for Learning Approach. A dynamic and empathetic speaker, presenter, and coach, Pam firmly believes in the power of inclusive, equitable teaching and learning for all.

Pam was one of the founding administrators of a middle school in Cambridge, MA. The school hosted learning tours for visitors from across the state and across the country. One of Pam’s greatest sources of pride was hearing from students that they could be themselves or see themselves reflected at the school.

Prior to her time in Cambridge, Pam worked in the Boston Public Schools, where she served as a school leader and an English and Humanities teacher at the middle and high school levels. She is also a trained International Baccalaureate teacher for both the Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme.

The proud daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Pam holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Pam enjoys all things food-related and spending time with her husband and daughter.

Praise for Pam Chu-Sheriff

★★★★★

Edward

Special Education Supervisor, BTSD

Excellent session! Lots of useful materials that will be easy to implement. Session was engaging and energetic.
★★★★★

Betsy Wermuth

Department Chair , Northbridge Public Schools

The team from Novak was fantastic at providing resources to work with our teams in the future. There were lots of avenues to open discussions with our teams because we have a variety of different modalities and levels of sources for our variety of adult learners.
★★★★★

Kennedy

Teacher, Bentonville School District

I enjoyed this professional development. Not only did I learn a lot, I got materials to use moving forward.
★★★★★

Latechia Mitchell

Physical Science Educator, MCPS

The professional development given by Novak Education was top notch. I learned so much and I know that I will be able to utilize these skills in the classroom on the first day of school.
★★★★★

Principal

Greater Essex County

The resources provided are practical and will support implementation. The pace of the workshop was just right - and modeling helped.
★★★★★

Jess

Teacher

This is one of the only PDs I’ve found truly engaging and useful, having a framework that doesn’t focus mostly on one subject area or even just academics.
★★★★★

Natalie

Director

This session helped me to be aware of a different perspective we can use as a school to increase the family engagement and avoid the silent divide.
★★★★★

Jessica

Science Teacher, Joseph Case High School

This session was very helpful and eye-opening as a teacher. I learned many new things about how to remove barriers for my students as well as strategies to do so.
★★★★★

Renee Estrella

Teacher, Swansea Public Schools

This training was invigorating. I have been teaching for 19 years and it took a topic we have all heard about and made it achievable and exciting.
★★★★★

Patrick

Music Teacher , Middleborough Public Schools

UDL has helped me expand my lessons to a larger variety of learning levels while providing my students with additional ways to express their mastery of each unit!
★★★★★

Ruth Demshick

Special Education Supervisor, Bucks County IU

What a very well done presentation! It was engaging and I didn’t feel I was being talked at! I felt it was a great experience in team building as well!!