About Us & A Brief History
• Celebrating 30 years in 2025! •
P. A. Publishing has always printed and bound our publications in the United States of America as well as locally in Austin (or previously in Abilene, Texas). We also use office, shipping, and marketing materials that are composed of 30% post-consumer materials and 70% socially responsible practices in order to help our offices promote a sustainable environment.
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.
A Brief History
Professional Associates Publishing
June of 1995 to December of 2009
During the Summer 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. The first publication was Implementing Portfolios: Time-Saving Procedures for Busy Teachers (which evolved into Assessment, 4th ed.). It debuted at the 1995 Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) annual conference.
From 1995 to 1999, Professional Associates Publishing developed as a company and regularly publish books, task cards, and training binders. Bertie and Richard lived in Abilene, Texas while traveling to district conferences and training workshops. Along with her professorship and consulting, Bertie wrote constantly. Jeffery lived in the 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–the two of them driving together to all four corners of the continental states to attend as many as 30 conferences annually. Jeffery quickly became the Business Manager and Executive Editor as well as built and 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. Not having any staff other than Jeffery, he also maintained the company’s offices as well as exhibited at conferences alone for that year until the TAGT conference. This began the discussions about Jeffery buying the company for Richard to retire.
P. A. Publishing
January of 2010 to Today
On January 1, 2010, Richard and Bertie Kingore sold the rights to Professional Associates Publishing and all of the copyrights to Jeffery Kingore for $200,000. He rebranded as P. A. Publishing and created this current domain.
From 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. Then, in 2015, Dr. Bertie Kingore officially retired, withdrew from associations and organizations, and directed Jeffery to remove her website which he had built and managed for her for free: www.bertiekingore.com
In 2019, Jeffery was diagnosed with stage three cancer. After four months of 24/7 chemo, two open surgeries, and many following procedures, he was in remission. While in recovery, the world experienced the height of Covid, extending his isolation from the general public. Determined to renovate and revitalize P. A. Publishing in 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 and his house in Austin in order to relocated to Dallas so he could continuously, independently care for Bertie and Richard Kingore while living in their guest bedroom. Richard’s Parkinson’s disease and dementia were consuming him, and Bertie had just become completely blind. Jeffery managed their household as well as properties, assisted them with daily tasks as well as cooked every meal, and completed their taxes as well as other business while narrating his work for Bertie.
Upon returning to Austin in January of 2024, Jeffery Kingore immediately turned his focus to revitalizing P. A. Publishing in preparation for the 30th anniversary of the company. Over the course of the year, he:
- Formed Kingore, LLC,
- Became a member of the Small Business Association,
- Returned to the NAGC annual conferences,
- Rejoined the TAGT conference circuit, and
- Rebuilt https://kingore.com.
2025 has continued to be a renaissance for P. A. Publishing as well as Jeffery Kingore. In November of 2025 at the NAGC Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, P. A. Publishing will debut the first of many new editions and publications!