David Nurenberg is a professor, educational consultant and writer in the Boston area who teaches courses at both the high school and graduate level.
Dr. Nurenberg consults with middle and secondary schools seeking to develop, improve and expand their work with student-centered pedagogy, inquiry and project-based learning, cooperative learning, and more. For more information, click here.
"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
- George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), Middlemarch
My book is available now on Amazon.com! Click the book to see more.
Recent publications:
Nurenberg, D (2025, March 27). Helping Digital Natives Overcome Digital Naivete: Four Steps to Media Literacy. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/learning/helping-digital-natives-overcome-digital-naivete-four-steps-to-media-literacy.html
Nurenberg, D. (2024, October 16). ChatGPT Can Make English Teachers Feel Doomed. Here's How I'm Adapting. Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/technology/opinion-chatgpt-can-make-english-teachers-feel-doomed-heres-how-im-adapting/2024/10
Nurenberg, D. and Tuller, L. (2023) “All in this together” – Improving access to accelerated learning through heterogeneously grouped classes. Teachers College Record (125)7, 3-50.
Nurenberg, D. and Lawhorn, B. (2023) – Past and future plagues as windows into the present: Using YA texts to teach about diseases and immunity. Greenhouse, P., Eisenbach, B. and Kaywell, J. Adolescent literature as a complement to the content areas: Science and math. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
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