NE/NYCC Teacher Quality Collaborations Webinar
Let's talk about content-area literacy
Pre-service and in-service teacher educators share notes
May 18, 2007
The two featured presenters led a dialogue about how teacher preparation faculty, school coaches/professional developers, and state and local education leaders can work together to build teachers' knowledge about content-area literacy and integrate scientifically based research in literacy (SBR-L) into their instruction.
Audience: Pre-service teacher educators, in-service teacher trainers, and SEA/LEA educational leaders with a stake in student achievement from the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and Rhode Island.
Featured Presenters
Michael Faggella-Luby, Center for Behavioral Education and Research (CBER) at the Neag School of Education, the University of Connecticut. Dr. Faggella-Luby's primary research interest focuses on embedding instruction in learning strategies into subject-area courses to improve reading comprehension for all levels of learners. Dr. Faggella-Luby is a former high school administrator and teacher of both English and Chemistry.
Bill Clarke, Literacy Coordinator for the Blackstone Academy Charter School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. At Blackstone, Mr. Clarke spearheaded development and implementation of a school-wide literacy program including: multi-tiered reading classes, cross-content curriculum development, differentiated instruction, school-wide SSR, and literacy-focused professional development for interdisciplinary teacher teams. A former teacher of English and Spanish, Mr. Clarke is an experienced professional developer who works with a variety of schools to strengthen their literacy programs.
Online Collaboration Forum
This online conversation, the first of several planned by the New England and New York Teacher Quality Collaborations team, continued beyond the webinar in our online collaboration forum. Webinar participants were able to join the asynchronous online forum to deepen and expand the webinar conversation, ask questions of one another, hear more from the presenters, and share resources and ideas.