Shveta Miller
Education Consultant
Welcome! I am a thought partner for educators and leaders seeking support with creating rich literacy learning experiences for all students. I facilitate ongoing job-embedded professional learning services to decrease disparities, disproportionality, and predictability in student outcomes.
Professional learning facilitator for teachers and leaders
Author and Speaker
Curriculum Developer
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Editor
Instructional Designer
Let’s Work Together
I design and facilitate transformational learning experiences for students, teachers, and leaders.
How can I support you?
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I offer customized professional learning sessions to support educators with accelerating readers, differentiating instruction, and cultivating higher-level thinking using visual texts and culturally responsive practices. My sessions attune to adult learning needs and provide actionable strategies teachers can apply immediately.
Live online, asynchronous, webinar, or on-site with options for ongoing support.
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Keynote or breakout session speaker/presenter on research-based visual literacy practices, Language Arts instruction, accelerating striving readers, differentiating to ensure higher-level learning for all students, and more.
I co-present at state and national conferences, frequently speak on Comic Con panels, appear on education podcasts, and even interview authors of visual stories at book festivals.
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I design standards-aligned Language Arts curriculum for grades 6-12 that is evidence-based and culturally responsive. I create lesson plans and study guides to accompany culturally sustaining texts. My curriculum meets the highest Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion standards.
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I edit curriculum and instructional resources to ensure alignment with Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion standards. I support content writers with eliminating bias, limited perspectives, and inaccurate representations.
Featured Publications
What’s it like to work with Shveta?
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"I practically begged Shveta Miller to write her book. When she showed me the incredible power of graphic novels as a tool for expression, complex thinking, and demonstrating learning, I wanted every teacher to hear about it. Graphic novels have gotten a lot more attention in the past decade, but Miller has a special gift for diving deep into their emotional and cognitive benefits; at the same time, she manages to make implementation seem easy. I feel certain that you'll be trying the ideas in her book before you've even finished reading it.”
Jennifer Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief @ Cult of Pedagogy
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“Shveta is an exceptional instructional designer who is receptive to feedback and consistently produces high-quality work for a variety of audiences. She has gone above and beyond to draft high-quality content for a variety of modalities and delivery types. She is proactive about seeking and applying feedback, meticulous about applying style guidelines, thoughtful in planning to meet the needs of both field consultants and teachers, and efficient in working on tight and multiple deadlines. Shveta is a thoughtful, creative, and collaborative person. ”
Tara Brite, Lead Instructional Designer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Shveta was one of HMH's most sought-after online coaches and trainers. Her incredible ability to partner with teachers to help them analyze their students' data and turn it into action to increase student performance was recognized by all. The demand for her expertise was so high. She has a calm, professional demeanor and truly cares about those she works with. She has exceptional organizational skills and the ability to independently work on multiple projects at the same time, all while making every customer she works with feel like they are her only client. She is truly an amazing educator and coach.”
Eva Brown, Mentor-Leader, Customer Success Manager, and Author
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“Shveta was an excellent English teacher because she was knowledgeable, and especially versatile at customizing her instruction to meet the needs of all students in her classes. Shveta served a population that struggled academically but she was undaunted. She used a diverse repertoire of instruction, even using songs to engage her students academically. Shveta was well respected by her peers, and years after she no longer worked with us, her former students often inquired about her.”
Leba Collins-Augone, Principal Emeritus, NYC Department of Education
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"Shveta Miller is an exceptional writer, presenter, teacher, and human being. I was honored to work with her as part of her book team through Times 10 Publications. Her book Hacking Graphic Novels was so well-written that parts of it took my breath away, and that’s rare for me to experience as a nonfiction editor! She wraps her deep, rich content and imagery with an eloquence of words and a delightful flow of language. I would love to work with her (and her words) again."
Jennifer Jas, Nonfiction Book Editor
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"As a teacher, Shveta sought to challenge and inspire her students at every opportunity, teaching us how to write more effectively and how to introduce a critical lens when examining a work of literature. Her course far surpassed my expectations: I left prepared--not only for the AP exam (on which I, like many of her students, achieved a 5)--but also, for the level of intellectual rigor expected in the college classroom. As a student at Brown University, many of my achievements in humanities coursework can be partly attributed to the fundamental skills Shveta imparted to me as a high school student. "
Patricia Santos, MPH Candidate at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
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Shveta was my 12th grade AP English literature teacher. She was incredible--constantly challenging us to be more creative, concise, original, and logical, and then giving us the analytical tools to do so. This training proved valuable for the many essays required for coursework at Stanford. Even now, where my work is far removed from literature and essay-writing, I find myself going back to Shveta's teachings to guide my critical thinking. Shveta was also helpful as an honest editor and as a teacher preparing us for AP exams. I would highly recommend her to any students, parents, and future writers.
Anna Isabella Akker, Portfolio Manager at CO2
Featured Presentations
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Oregon State Literacy Association's 2023 Symposium
Just as students need “close reading” skills to analyze texts, they also need to apply “close looking” strategies to examine visual texts. I model 11 “close looking” strategies that help students uncover the intricacies of objects, systems, and relationships; explore diverse perspectives; and probe their own subjectivity.
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San Diego Comic Con 2020
I join four experts to demonstrate how to lead students in analyzing the elements of comics and the unique combination of art and text. We also share resources and discuss challenges.
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WonderCon 2020
In this crash course in text analysis for graphic novels, I co-presented techniques and tools for building students’ critical literacy skills with graphic texts at all grade levels. Watch as we demonstrate how to lead students in analyzing the elements of comics. We share tips, activities, and vocabulary you can use with your students tomorrow!
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TImes 10's What's Best for Kids 2021
Angela Stockman and I discuss how teaching multimodal writing and visual storytelling creates brave student writers who can offer meaningful peer-to-peer feedback. We each share “one thing” that can be quickly implemented the next day in the classroom.
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How to Find and Choose Graphic Novels for Students Comic-Con International April 2021
Join our expert panel of teachers and librarians as we discuss where to find high-quality reviews and title recommendation lists, how to choose titles and match readers to texts and tasks, where to find books in both print and digital formats, and more.
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Graphic Novels Are the New Textbooks San Diego Comic-Con @ Home July 2021
Modern, dynamic teaching means thinking outside the textbook. I join a panel of experts to discuss techniques to engage students using the comics medium in a way that will demonstrate practical positive educational results.
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Manga in Libraries: Teaching with Manga
I join a panel of experts discussing the benefits of including manga in the curriculum, addressing challenges, resources to support teaching with manga, and must-have titles. Sponsored by ALA’s Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable in 2022.
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Using Drawing for Formative Assessment
Edutopia adapted my article to produce this short video primer on the value of assessing student understanding through drawings.
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Graphic Novels: Teaching Up to Their Potential, 2022
The stigma about graphic novels not being “real” books is (almost) gone. But are educators using graphic novels to their full potential? What literacy skills can be practiced and honed using graphic novels? Which books are best for which purposes? Who still needs to be convinced that graphic novels have a role in promoting literacy—and how? Sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group.
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Engaging Accelerated and Reluctant Readers with Comics, Library Pass 2021
Our panel of experienced educators—Jesse Karp, Shveta Miller, Julie Ann Price, Susannah Richards, Ph.D., Jana Tropper—discussed their process for using comics to support readers of different abilities, how they partner with other stakeholders, and how they measure their success. Moderated by John Shableski.
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Get Your Mind in the Gutter: Sequential Art as Inference Tool, 2022
While some dismiss comics as less intellectually challenging than “real” books, graphic novels offer an opportunity to think abstractly in a way few other storytelling media can. The space between panels – the gutter – requires readers to make connections, while the art demands patience and attention that isn’t guided by words lined up on the page. I joined other seasoned educators to share how we use comics as a tool for all types of inferring: determining causes, solving problems, predicting likely outcomes, and connecting dots.
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Instruction and Validation Through Comics
This workshop, hosted by LitX, explores newer and lesser known comic titles that can serve as instructional tools for students as well as opportunities for students AND teachers to see themselves and their struggles on the page. We offer suggested titles and specific strategies to use in the classroom immediately! This session was offered at the New England Association of Teachers of English’s 2022 Virtual Conference.
Contact Shveta
Do you need support with accelerating striving readers to meet and exceed grade-level standards?
Are you looking to include high-interest and culturally relevant texts in your instruction and need guidance with how to leverage their potential?
Could your curriculum and instructional resources use editing to ensure they are free of bias, prejudice, limited perspectives, and inaccurate representations?
Looking for a dynamic and collaborative facilitator, panelist, moderator, or speaker for an educator conference, book festival, or podcast?
Seeking a thought-partner with a passion for affirming, culturally responsive instruction that helps students become comfortable with the complex?
I’d love to hear from you!
FAQ
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I offer flexible services. I can work in person and onsite, live online, or asynchronously (recorded webinars, etc.).
We can work together over email, on the phone, through video conferencing, for one hour, a whole day, or over the course of a year or more.
Reach out to make a plan that fits your specific needs and budget.
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My services and rates are flexible and customized to your specific needs. I aim to accommodate all requests in order to impact more students. Reach out with your needs and we’ll make a plan that works for you.
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Yes! I love when folks reach out with invitations to collaborate on a workshop session, conference panel, article, and more.
If you have curriculum needs, professional learning projects, or simply want to ask a question, leave feedback, or recommend a resource or book, please reach out.
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Yes! I was an instructional coach for several years, working side-by-side with new and veteran teachers to plan instruction that increased student outcomes.
I have also supervised two interns on writing projects.
Reach out if you are interested in my work and would like to learn more about it.