Staff Development Presentations with School Districts

Lorain City Schools, Ohio
Adolescent Literacy Workshop presentation (November, 2006)

Midlands Technical College, Columbia, South Carolina
Presented a keynote and workshop on working with millenial students for their "No-Frills Conference" (September, 2006)

Mt. Camel High School, Chicago, Illinois
Presented a workshop on writing and assessment (April, 2006)

Canton Local Schools, Ohio
Presenting a series of in-services focusing on reading and writing across the curriculum (August, 2005-February, 2006)

West Holmes Local Schools, Holmes County, Ohio

• Presenting two in-services to the entire staff of West Holmes Middle School focusing on reading across the curriculum (September-October, 2005)
• Providing an independent review of the district's reading instructional program (K-4) (Winter, 2000)

Medina County Career Center, Ohio
Presenting a two-day in-service on the teaching of reading to the English teachers (August, 2005)

Wadsworth City Schools, Ohio
Presenting an in-service to the entire district teaching staff (K-12) on differentiating instruction (August, 2004)

Akron Public Schools, Ohio
Presenting a series of in-services on new literacies and reading instructional strategies to teachers at Miller South School for the Visual & Performing Arts (June, 2004-June, 2005)

Wooster City Schools, Ohio

• Creating a comprehensive social studies instructional guide for social studies teachers (Summer, 1999)
• Training eighth-grade social studies teachers in how to use rubrics (Spring, 2000)
• Facilitating the writing (with eighth-grade social studies teachers) of two common assessments to be administered to the entire eighth grade (Spring, 2000)
• Facilitating four in-services for special education teachers on the teaching of reading (2003-2004 school year)

Green Local Schools, Smithville, Ohio
Providing two in-services to the entire district teaching staff (K-12) on reading and assessment strategies across the curriculum (October, 2002 and January, 2003)

• Providing an in-service to K-5 teachers on differentiating instruction (December, 2002)
• Providing an in-service to middle and high school teachers on effective teaching of reading strategies (June, 2003)

Canton City Schools, Ohio

• Providing a series of in-services for elementary and middle school teachers on using literature to teach science and social studies content (October, 2002-April, 2003)
• Providing an in-service for middle school and high school teachers focusing on creating interdisciplinary curriculum and content area reading strategies (June, 2001 and June, 2002)
• Providing an in-service for ninth grade teachers focusing on the ninth grade proficiency test (August, 2001)
• Providing a series of in-services for ninth grade teachers focusing on creating an interdisciplinary unit (February-April, 2002)

Marlington Middle School, Alliance, Ohio
Providing an in-service for the entire staff on content area reading strategies (January, 2002)

East Region Professional Development Center (Ohio Department of Education)
Summer Institute for Reading Intervention

• For teachers of Grades K-4 (Summer, 2000)
• Guided Reading for Teachers of Grades 3-4 (Summer, 2001)
• Developing Strategic Readers/Writers for Grades 3-4 (Summer, 2001)
• Middle Grades Reading Institute: Reaching Reluctant, Struggling 
  Readers (Summer, 2001)
• For teachers of Grades 3-4 (SIRI One, Winter, 2002)
• For teachers of Grades 3-4 (SIRI One, Summer, 2002)
• Middle Grades Reading Institute (Summer, 2002)
• Reading: The First “R” for grades K-4 (Summer, 2003)
• Adolescent Literacy for grades 7-10 (Summer, 2003, 2004,
  Spring & Summer, 2005)

Woodridge Local Schools, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Providing an in-service for Woodridge elementary teachers focusing on "Literacy Games in Context of the Four-Blocks Framework."  (February, 2001)

Chippewa Local Schools, Doylestown, Ohio

• Providing two in-services focusing on Writing Across the Curriculum and Designing Rubrics (Fall, 2000)
• Providing a series of in-services for the Chippewa High School/Middle School English department, focusing on curriculum alignment and strategies for motivating struggling readers (2001-2002 school year) 

Cuyahoga Falls City Schools, Ohio

• Providing a series of staff development programs for Preston Elementary School, focusing on writing assessment and rubric development (1999-2000 School Year)
• Providing an in-service focusing on the Four Blocks Framework of Language Arts Instruction (Fall, 2000)
• Providing an in-service focusing on "Literacy Games" for Lincoln Elementary School (January, 2001)

Akron Civic Theatre, Akron, Ohio
Providing curriculum and evaluation support for "Wheels of Fortune Tour" project designed for third- and fourth-graders (Spring, 2000)

Tri-County Educational Service Center (Wayne, Ashland, Holmes Counties)
Providing an inservice on Effective Communication for the Administrative Competency Workshop (Spring, 2000)