I have more than 20 years of expertise as a staff developer in public and private schools and school districts in the New York Metropolitan Area and around the country. 

Topics of expertise include:

• Implementing reading and writing workshops
• Developing a balanced literacy framework
• Writing rigorous and comprehensive units of study
• Teaching academic vocabulary
• Interactive read-aloud
• Guided reading
• Launching and raising the level of book clubs
• Unison reading
• Implementing joyful, systemic phonics instruction, including ​Fundations. 
• Developing a differentiated, individualized spelling program, including Words Their Way
• Teaching non-fiction reading and writing
• Meeting and exceeding the Common Core State Standards
• Developing a dialogic community
• Teaching the reading and writing of poetry
• Integrating technology to expand literacy learning
• Using formative and summative assessments in language arts classrooms to guide instruction and develop students' agency. 
• Using reader response notebooks in creative and innovative ways

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