Last Names A-F

PEGGY ALBERS
Author, Literacies, the Arts, and Multimodality
Georgia State University

• English education
• Arts and Literacy, visual analysis
• Content area literacy
  

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DALE ALLENDER
Director, NCTE West Office
University of California, Berkeley

• Multicultural literature instruction
• Twenty-first century learning and teaching
• New media

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DEBORAH APPLEMAN
Author, Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers of Literature
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

• Adolescent literacy
• Literary theory for high school students
• Reading strategies for mainstream literature teachers

 

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BARBARA L. CAMBRIDGE
D.C. Office Director
Washington Office

• Scholarly inquiry into teaching and learning
• promoting learning through portfolios—print or electronic
• learning from and with our students

 

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FRANK T. CHIKI
Elementary Section Steering Committee
Chamiza Elementary School, Albuquerque, NM

• Technology integration
• Writer's workshop in the primary classroom

 

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CLAIRE COLEMAN LAMONICA
Chair, Standing Committee on Affiliates
Illinois State University, Normal, IL

• NCTE Affiliates
• Teaching writing
• Collaborative writing

 

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JOHN T. CROW 
Author, Learning to Write for Readers: Using Brain-Based Strategies, Lakeland, FL

• Writing for Readers: Using How Readers Readt o Help Writers Write
• Grammar and Mechanics: Building from teh Speaking Brain to the Writing Brain
• Sentence Fluency: Moving Student Writers to the Next Level

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MILLIE DAVIS
Senior Developer, Affiate Groups and Public Outreach
NCTE Headquarters, Urbana, Illinois

• Censorship and intellectual freedom
• Teaching writing
• The NCTE/affiliate partnership
• Strategies for revitalizing volunteer organizations 

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DEBORAH DEAN

Author, What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah    

• Writing strategies and strategic writing
• Genre theory
• Mentor texts for writing

 

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CAROLYN CALHOON-DILLAHUNT
TYCA Chair
Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, Washington

• Writing Assessment
• Developmental Writing
• Learning Communities

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PATRICIA A. DUNN
Chair, College Steering Committee
Stony Brook University, NY (SUNY)

• The teaching of writing
• Multi-sensory teaching strategies
• Language-related learning disabilities

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CHRISTINE R. FARRIS
CCCC Executive Committee Officer
Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Concurrent enrollment/dual credit composition course
• Bridging high school and college approaches to academic writing and reading
• Integrating composition and literature instruction

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BOB FECHO
Author, Writing in the Dialogical Classroom
University of Georgia, Athens

• Dialogical writing
• Culture and literacy
• Teacher research

 

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MARY JO FRESCH 
Author, Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
Ohio State University at Marion, Dublin, OH

• Word study (History of English, spelling/vocabulary)
• Picture books and text sets for teaching middle school content

 

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NANCY FREY
Author,Language Learners in the English Classroom
San Diego State University, California 

• Content-area literacy at elementary and secondary levels
• English learners in the English classroom
• Using graphic novels in reading and writing 

 

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