Nancy Akhavan is the author of the Heinemann titles The Title I Teacher's Guide to Teaching Reading, K - 3 (2008), Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English (2006), How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment & Standards, and Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible (2004).As Assistant Superintendent for Middle Schools in Fresno Unified School District, a large urban district in Central California, Nancy leads fifteen middle schools. She is passionate about helping all children learn; she spends every spare minute in a classroom working with teachers to provide literacy instruction that works for all children. Her experience includes time as a principal, elementary school bilingual teacher, bilingual resource teacher, and professional developer for over seventeen years.Nancy's goal is to provide and facilitate a high quality education for all children through authentic, purposeful instruction. She has provided staff development training to teachers grades K - 12 on s.