SUNDAY Pre-Conference Workshops Speakers
Reading Recovery Featured Speakers C. C. Bates C. C. Bates, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of literacy education and director of the Clemson University Reading Recovery University Training Center. Her work has been published in The Reading Teacher, Young Children, the Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, and The Journal of Reading Recovery. Sessions: RRB-1, RRD-1, RRE-1
Mary Anne Doyle Mary Anne Doyle is the director of the Reading-Language Arts Center at the University of Connecticut and director of Connecticut’s Reading Recovery Project. She chairs the Executive Board of the International Reading Recovery Trainers Organization and the Research Committee of the North American Trainers Organization. Sessions: RRC-1, RRG-1
Sue Duncan Sue Duncan is a Director of the Reading Recovery Program at Georgia State University. She was a teacher and principal throughout New Zealand before training as a Reading Recovery Tutor in 1985, then becoming a Reading Recovery Trainer in 1989. She has since worked in New Zealand, England, Canada, and the USA. Sue is also the only trained Facilitator for the First Chance program in the US, and is a university trainer for the Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy. Sessions: PC-5, RRB-2, RRC-2
Mary Fried Mary Fried is a Trainer at The Ohio State University Reading Recovery Center. She has been actively engaged in teaching, presenting, conducting research, and writing about Reading Recovery for over 30 years. She and her colleagues at Ohio State have focused their research on analyzing Running Records, teaching literacy lessons to intervention specialists, and working with students and teachers in ELL programs.
Eva Konstantellou Eva Konstantellou is an Associate Professor and a Reading Recovery Trainer at the Lesley University Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative. For the past fifteen years she has overseen the implementation of Reading Recovery in teacher training sites in MA, NH, RI, VT, in the OCM BOCES site in NY, and the Prince William County Schools site in VA. She enjoys the intellectual challenge of working closely with teacher leaders in support of the learning of teachers and students. Her research interests include language learning, literacy coaching, and critical pedagogy. Session: RRC-4
Mary Rosser Mary Rosser is the director of the University Training Center for Reading Recovery and coordinator of Literacy Professional Development Programs at the University of Maine. Mary’s areas of expertise are language education, curriculum development, and early literacy intervention. Her research interests focus on analysis of pedagogy with attention to teacher/student interactions that promote powerful learning. Sessions: RRE-3, RRG-2
Jim Schnug Jim Schnug is starting his second year as a trainer with the New York University’s Reading Recovery Center. He was first trained as a Reading Recovery teacher and teacher leader in 1987 and ran Ohio’s Ashland University/Mansfield City School site in the early 1990’s. He was a tenured professor, Early Childhood department chair, and assistant dean for graduate studies at Ashland University before leaving to become the project administrator for the i3 Grant, Reading Recovery: Scaling Up What Works. Sessions: RRD-3, RRG-3
Sessions: PC-6, RRB-3, RRD-2
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