Susi Long began her career as an elementary school teacher in multiage as well as single grade level classrooms. For the past nine years, she has been a faculty member in Language & Literacy and Early Childhood Education at the University of South Carolina. Since 1999, she has worked with cohorts of literacy coaches in the South Carolina Reading Initiative (SCRI). Her publications focus on early literacy, learning in culturally and linguistically diverse schools and communities, and teacher study groups (see links on this website). She most recently worked with seven graduates of USC’s preservice program to study the barriers and support encountered by new teachers as they work to bring visions of great teaching to life. Their book – Tensions and Triumphs (NCTE, 2006) - tells stories from the first six years of teaching and provides advice for administrators, mentors, university faculty, and new teachers.
View Susi Long's Resume
- Constructing Classrooms to Support Young Readers and Writers (preK, K, 1st- 3rd grade)
- Where’s the Phonics (and other stuff people always ask you)?: Understanding and Articulating the Breadth and Depth of Children’s Learning in Semantically-Rich Classrooms
- “They Come From Brilliance”: Home and Community Language and Literacies and Implications for Learning in the Lives of All Children
- Developing and Maintaining Professional Study Groups: Structures and Strategies for teachers and administrators
- Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching (several possible workshop structures):
- Supporting New Teachers: A Workshop for School and District Administrators
- Hanging On to the Vision: A Workshop for New Teachers and Their Colleagues
- Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching: A Workshop for New Teachers, Their Colleagues, and Administrators
- English Language Learners: Embracing Multiple Languages in PreK and Elementary Classrooms
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