Awards and Honors

• Member of select committee to write standards for Reading and Writing, Grades 4-6, National Center On Education And The Economy (NCEE), 2003–2005.
• Elected Elementary Section Representative-at-Large,   National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2001–2003.
• Featured as "Exemplary Literacy Classroom" site for Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Video Series aired nationally on PBS stations, entitled, "Envisioning Literature, Grades 3-6", 2002.
• Featured as "Exemplary Master Teacher" by Northeast Educational Laboratory at Brown University. Subject of demonstration video jointly produced by Brown University, United Federation of Teachers, and District 2, New York City, 1998.
• Focus research site for New Standards Project, University of Pittsburgh, 1997–1998.
• Demonstration site for Kansas City School District, Fort Worth Independent School District, New York City School Districts, 1996–1999.
• "Writer-in-the-Schools" Fellowship, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1988.
• "Best Fiction of the Year," Calvert Magazine, University of Maryland, 1980.
• National University Honors Society Award  for Poetry, 1978.
• Women in Journalism, two-year scholarship, 1974.
• Texas Gridiron Journalism Award, two-year scholarship, 1974.