Paul Emerich France

Paul Emerich France is a National Board Certified Teacher, literacy specialist, instructional coach, adjunct professor, keynote speaker, and education consultant with over a decade of classroom experience teaching grades transitional kindergarten through fifth grade in both public and independent schools. He is the founder of Make Teaching Sustainable, an organization dedicated to helping schools and educators adopt sustainable, human-centered practices, and hosts the Make Teaching Sustainable podcast.

France is the author of multiple books on teaching and learning, including Make Teaching Sustainable: Six Shifts That Teachers Want and Students Need, My Kids Can’t Write: How to Advance Achievement Through Cross-Curricular Writing (K–5), Reclaiming Personalized Learning: A Pedagogy for Restoring Equity and Humanity in Our Classrooms, and Humanizing Distance Learning. He writes regularly for education publications such as Educational Leadership, Edutopia, EdSurge, the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Today, and The Learning Professional, and his work and thought leadership have been featured at SXSW EDU and in outlets including The New Yorker, WIRED, and The Atlantic.