Alison Porcelli

Alison Porcelli is an educator and author who previously served as vice principal of P.S. 59 in Manhattan. She spent eight years as a senior staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, consulting nationally and internationally on literacy practices, and began her career as a kindergarten teacher.

Porcelli is the coauthor, with Kristine Mraz and Cheryl Tyler, of Purposeful Play: A Teacher’s Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day (Heinemann, 2016). She also coauthored A Quick Guide to Boosting English Acquisition in Choice Time, K–2 with Tyler.