General Information
P. A. Publishing is dedicated to elevating and enriching everyone’s learning. Research-based, our materials focus on maximizing high-level responses and achievements while minimizing time and preparation. We believe learning experiences are most effective when students and educators are mentally engaged, socially involved, successful, and personally rewarded.
Everything that P. A. Publishing produces and distributes is printed in the United States of America. We also use paper and cardboard that is composed of 30% post-consumer materials and 70% socially responsible practices in order to help our offices, shipping, and marketing materials promote a sustainable environment.
An Introduction to P. A. Publishing
Professional Associates Publishing
A BRIEF HISTORY
In the Fall of 1995, Dr. Bertie Kingore with her husband, Richard Kingore, instituted Professional Associates Publishing by including Jeffery Kingore, their second of three sons, to create the company’s publications, marketing, and infrastructure. Their first publication was Implementing Portfolios: Time-Saving Procedures for Busy Teachers (which evolved into Assessment, 4th ed.), debuting at the 1996 Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) annual conference.
From 1995 to 1999, Professional Associates Publishing commenced to develop as a company and regularly publish books, task cards, and training binders. Bertie and Richard lived in Abilene, Texas while traveling to small conferences and training workshops. Along with her professorship and consulting, Bertie wrote constantly. Jeffery lived in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and simultaneously attend University of North Texas for degrees in English and psychology with a minor in art as well as pre-med.
In 2000, Richard and Bertie encouraged Jeffery to move to Austin, Texas. Self-proclaimed the Three Musketeers, the company began to flourish. From 2000-2010, Bertie wrote extensively as she frequently consulted around the country, eventually flying six million miles with American Airlines. Richard, the business owner and C.F.O., also exhibited at conferences with Jeffery, annually driving together to all four corners of the continental states. Jeffery quickly became the Business Manager, Executive Editor, and built as well as managed their website and online store: www.professionalassociatespublishing.com. During that time, Jeffery also served as Bertie’s office assistant, including building and regularly managing her consulting website (www.bertiekingore.com) as well as creating and distributing handouts for her.
In 2005, Richard was diagnosed with stage three cancer and had to withdraw from his obligations to his company. Bertie kept her consulting schedule and openly acknowledged that Jeffery nursed Richard back to health. Never having any staff, Jeffery also maintained the company’s offices located in Bertie and Richard’s estate as well as exhibited at conferences alone for that year until the TAGT conference. During the time of Professional Associates Publishing, Bertie had two knee replacements and one hip replaced. She declined hospital rehabilitation and opted for Jeffery to assist her through her recovery in her home while he worked.
P. A. Publishing
A BRIEF HISTORY
On January 1, 2010, Richard and Bertie Kingore sold the rights to Professional Associates Publishing, the inventory, and all of the copyrights to Jeffery Kingore for $200,000. He rebranded as P. A. Publishing and created this current domain.
During 2010 to 2015, Jeffery hired an office manager and a shipping manager, critical for his offices to function when he traveled to exhibit. Continuing the gifted education conference circuit, he exhibited at many national, state, and International Baccalaureate (IB) conferences, contracting Bertie and Richard to present and join him with all expenses paid when Bertie was donating her time. Then, in 2015, Dr. Bertie Kingore officially retired, withdrew from associations and organizations, and directed Jeffery to remove her website: www.bertiekingore.com
In 2019, Jeffery was diagnosed with stage three cancer. After three months of daily chemo, two open surgeries, and many following procedures, he was in remission. While in self-assisted recovery, the world experienced the height of Covid, extending his isolation from the general public. Determined to renovate and revitalize P. A. Publishing in the Fall of 2022, Jeffery made new directives and invested in marketing to announce the complete rebuild of his company and website. However, for 2023, Jeffery temporarily locked P. A. Publishing’s offices in Austin and relocated to Dallas so he could continuously, independently care for Bertie and Richard Kingore. He stayed in their guest bedroom while his house and offices were unattended.
Now, in 2024, P. A. Publishing has returned to our offices in the City of Austin and is excited about our current regeneration and actions, including:
- New editions in development to publish for 2025,
- Downloadable reproducible figures with every publication,
- Staff development with a new lead presenter, and
- Three conferences of Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) as well as the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) annual conference.
Celebrating 30 years of “Engaging all learners and educators!” in December of 2025,
P. A. Publishing is excited to release new publications as well as new editions of existing titles. Attending additional conferences, we are eager to reconvene with long-established partners in education as well as reaching out to new associations. Jeffery Kingore will also return to completing his Ph.D. in psychology during the Spring of 2025, planning to attend University of Texas in Austin.