Jigisha Vyas

Jigisha Vyas is a co-author of the Read-Alouds with Heart series, including Read-Alouds with Heart: Grades K–2: Literacy Lessons That Build Community, Comprehension, and Cultural Competency and Read-Alouds with Heart: Grades 3–5: Literacy Lessons That Build Community, Comprehension, and Cultural Competency. She is described in these books’ materials as a university professor, instructional coach, certified mindful educator, and yoga instructor with over a decade of experience working with diverse communities and age groups in both special and general education.

Her work on Read-Alouds with Heart centers on using multicultural mentor texts and structured literacy lessons to support student voice, agency, equity, and anti-bias teaching in K–5 classrooms. In district communications, she is identified as an instructional coach at Coolidge School and recognized for co-authoring these Scholastic instructional books designed for K–5 literacy teachers.