meet Jessica
on paper, Jessica is an educator.
she has taught in public education for eighteen years, most at home with grades four & five. for three of those years, she worked as a faculty associate at Simon Fraser university in British Columbia, educating and supporting preservice teachers during their practicums.
within her first few years of teaching, Jessica discovered journaling.
she originally started it as a homework project with her students; they took home their journals to write in each weekend throughout the school year. Jessica journaled alongside her students as well, in efforts to model journaling formats, techniques, & purposes.
at the end of the first year of ‘homework journal’, Jessica knew it was something special. journaling provided connection & trust between her & her students, & cultivated classroom community in many ways. it became a social & emotional tool, to communicate with students regularly & to share pieces of identity.
going on twelve years of journaling, Jessica has now decided to share her practice.
in her first book Worth Writing Down: Ideas for Journaling Your Truest Self, she hopes to make journaling accessible to everyone.
