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Arens Consulting is an educational based consulting service focused on literacy. Amanda Arens holds a masters degree in education and works nationally and internationally with school districts. Her work includes training teachers, demonstrating lessons, aligning curriculum, planning lessons, mapping curriculum and facilitating books studies.  Her work is tailored to the needs of the district in which she is working.

Mrs. Arens is an expert on the Four-Blocks^® Literacy Model and has co-authored with Dr. Dorothy P. Hall, Dr. Patricia M. Cunningham and Dr. Karen Loman on the subject. Currently, she has published seven books on the Four-Blocks^® Literacy Model:  Month by Month Phonics & Vocabulary for 4th grade and for 5th grade,   Writing Mini Lessons for Upper Grades , The Administrator's Guide to Building Blocks, The Teacher's Guide to Big Blocks, Checklist for Implementing Big Blocks, and The Big Blocks Plan Book Plus.  To purchase these items, click here!

Mrs. Arens is a regular speaker for Conference-Pro.  Her national speaking engagements and consulting include a wide variety of venues on many different topics.

She offers, among other services, strategy planning and implementation with teachers, large/whole group in-services, model lessons in classrooms, lesson observation in classrooms with one-on-one feedback, and district wide strategy planning and implementation.   

Mrs. Arens' ability to adapt to any situation and help create solutions that foster learning for both students and teachers is evident in her ongoing work with several districts.  In addition to a wide range of literacy work, much of Amanda’s work centers on the Four-Block^® Literacy Framework. 

Amanda Arens
Literacy Consultant

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Dr. Dorothy Hall, director of the Four-Blocks^® Center at Wake Forest University says, “Amanda can do Building-Blocks (K), Four-Blocks, and is the best Big-Blocks presenter and trainer out there.  I have worked with her for 10 years and continue to be impressed with her work with schools and conferences.”

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