Selected Presentations

National Satellite Staff Development Broadcasts

• “Standards in the English Language Arts,” National School Conference Institute, Phoenix, January 1997-June 1998.
  • Broadcast Topics:
    • Reading
    • Writing
    • Evaluation
    • Inquiry
    • Technology and multiple ways of knowing
• "Effective Reading Strategies Series," National School Conference Institute, Phoenix, 1997-1998. 
  • Broadcast Topics: 
    • Research
    • Evaluation of proficient reader strategies
    • Reading/writing relationships
    • Assessment

International & National Conferences

• "Early Multiliteracies: An Expanded View of Literacy," National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX, 2008.
• "Developing Early Multiliteracies," National Council of Teachers of English, New York City, 2007.
• "Changing a Life Story: Literacy Strategies that Develop Academic Identity in Struggling Readers," National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN, 2006.
• "Developing Early Multiliteracies," National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005.
• “Beginning Self Study:  A Collaborative Look at Critical Reflection,”  American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2004.
• “Dialogic Assessment of Teaching and Learning Processes During Student Teaching:  Videotape Analysis, Reflective Inquiry, and Identity Development,” American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2004.
• "Communities of Practice:  Our Next Step in Understanding Social Learning,” National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco, CA, November 2003.
• “Changes in Beliefs & Assumptions of Pre-Service Teachers Regarding the Teaching and Assessing of Reading,” International Reading Association, Orlando, FL, May 2003.
• “The Scholarship of Teaching and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,” American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, January 2003.
• “Scholarship and Change in Pre-Service Teachers’  Beliefs and Assumptions about Reading and Language Arts," American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2002.
• “The Knowledge and Practice of Effective Reading Teachers,” National Council of Teachers of English, Baltimore, MD, November 2001.
• “Organizing Written Curriculum for Inquiry-Based Professional Development,” National Council of Teachers of English, Baltimore, MD, November 2001.
• "What Great Reading Teachers Know and Do," National Council of Teachers of English, Milwaukee, WI, November 2000.
• "Best Practice: What Criteria Do We Use?", Whole Language Umbrella Conference, Summer, 1998.
• “Inquiry-Based Evaluation,” National Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference, Pre-Conference Day Chair and Speaker, Minneapolis, MN, March 1995.
• “New Insights in Reading Theory and Practice and Purpose and Perspective: Bringing an Inquiry Curriculum to Life," Ontario Regional Educators' Conference, North Bay, Ontario, March 1995.
• “Eliminating the Boundaries between Reading Instruction and Assessment,”  Whole Language Umbrella, San Diego, CA, August 1994.
• “Inquiry-Based Instruction/Inquiry-Based Assessment," Nippissing University Conference, Ontario, Canada, March 1994.
• “Understanding the Impact of Collaboration on Reading Inquiry and Assessment,” National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1993.
• “Toward More Authentic Reading Assessment,” Nippissing University Convention, Ontario, Canada, March, 1993.
• "Strategies for Reflection and Authentic Assessment,” with Carolyn Burke, National Council of Teachers of English, Louisville, KY, November 1992.
• “Inquiry-Based Instruction and Assessment: The Changing Role of the Classroom Reading Teacher,” International Reading Association World Congress, Symposium Chairperson and Presenter, Stockholm.