Presentation Highlights

International

• "Pressures For and Against Literary Change:  A Global Conversation,” Third International Conference for Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, Bordeaux, France, August 1998.
• "Performing Gendered Stories from Our Classroom," Third International Conference for Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, Bordeaux, France, August 1998.
• "An Issue in Teacher Preparation," National Association of Teachers of English (United Kingdom) Conference, York University, York, England, April 1988.

National

• "When Shift Happens: What's History Got to Do with It?," National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX, November 2008."Reading and Re-Reading for Writing," National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX, November 2008.
• "Inscribing Stone Tablest: Struggling Writers and Timed Writing Tests," National Council of Teachers of English, New York City, November 2007.
• "Walking Out Talk: Teacher Educators in the High School Classroom," National Council of Teachers of English, New York City, November 2007.
• "Successful on-Demand Writers: What Teachers Can Learn from Them," National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN, November 2006.
• "Thinking Backward," National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2005.
• “A Moment in NCTE History,” National Council of Teachers of English, Indianapolis, IN, November 2004.
• “How Timed Writing Tests Shape Our Teaching of Writing:  Lessons Learned,” National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco, CA, November 2003.
• “Continue Teaching—Continue Reaching:  Renewing Yourself,” National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco, CA, November 2003.
• “Teacher Bashing,” Presidential Address, Board of Directors Meeting, National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, GA, November 2002.
• “If High Stakes Tests Are Here to Stay, What’s the Point of a Reflective Practitioner?,” National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, GA, November 2002. 
• “The Reading and Writing Connection:  The State of Reading in Schools,” NCTE Reading and Writing Urban Institute, Bethesda, MD, July 2002.
• “Teacher Change and Teachers as Change Agents,” Third Annual NCTE Reading Initiative Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington,  June 2002.
• “Recreating the Classroom,” Presidential Address, National  Council of Teachers of English, Baltimore, MD, November 2001.
• “What’s an Effective Literature Assignment?,” National Council of Teachers of English, Baltimore, MD, November 2001.
• "Young and Black in America:  Native Son, A Lesson Before Dying, and the Realities of Race," National Council of Teachers of English, Denver, CO, November 1999.

State and Regional

• “The Challenge of Being a Teacher,” Radford University, Radford, Virginia, March 2005.
• “Linking Reading and Writing Skills to Improve Student Performance,” Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, March 2005.
• “Meeting the Challenges of Writing on Demand,” California Teachers of English Annual Conference, Santa Clara, February 2005.
• “Critical Issues in English Language Arts,” Albemarle County Schools In-Service, Monticello High School, Scottsville, Virginia, November 2004.
• “Ten Myths about Learning to Write (and what we can do about them),” In-service Workshop, Wake County Public Schools, Raleigh, North Carolina, December 2003.
• “No Teacher Left Behind:  Keeping Our Passion in an Age of Accountability,” Keynote Address, Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, Harrisburg, October 2003.
• “A Natural Connection:  Linking Literature and Writing,” 2003 SOL Content/Teaching Academy, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, June 2003.
• “Writing Original Narratives Using The Mysteries of Harris Burdick,” Zelda Glazer Writing Institute, Miami-Dade Public Schools and the University of Miami, Miami, June 2003.
• “Writing to Learn through Children’s Literature,” WIT Conference, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, April 2003.
• “An Introduction to Young Adult Literature,” Workshop for Virginia Beach City Public School Middle Level Language Arts Teachers, Plaza Middle School, Virginia Beach, Virginia, July 2002; March 2003.
• “The Importance of TYCA,”  Two-Year College English Association Southeast Regional Conference, Richmond, Virginia, March 2002.