Jarod has been a classroom teacher for nearly 20 years, and currently teaches in the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs at University of South Florida. Jarod holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, with an emphasis in Language and Literacy Studies, from The Pennsylvania State University.
As a literacies researcher, he’s worked with children from 3 years old all the way through high school, and taught both one-shot and ongoing comics and creative writing classes for early childhood, elementary, middle school, high school, and college.
Bring Jarod to your school or library for a comics workshop, talk, or professional development.
1-Hour Workshops
Telling Our Own Stories
Talks
Why Imagination Matters
Professional Development
Comics across the Curriculum
Reading and Making Comics (for Teachers)
Writing, Drawing, and Imagination
Teaching Writing as an Art and Literacy Practice
Developing an Arts-Based Pedagogy