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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. 

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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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