Susi Long's Selected Presentations
Presentation Topics
 | Susi is eager to work with your prek, kindergarten, and elementary school teachers on constructing classrooms to support young readers and writers; building classrooms to reflect home and community language and literacies; developing professional study groups; and strategies for administrators, colleagues, and new teachers to use to support teachers as they enter the profession. |
Sample Workshops
| Some of Susi's workshop titles include: "Constructing Classrooms to Support Young Readers and Writers," "Developing & Maintaining Professional Study Groups: Structures & Strategies," and "Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching: Finding Voice, Support, and Joy." Learn about the audience and objectives of these workshops and more.
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Selected Presentations, Keynotes and Workshops
| Susi has consulted with teachers, administrators, literacy coaches, preservice teachers, and reading specialists. She has presented to schools, districts, and regional and district literacy leaders across South Carolina and in various parts of the country. |
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Published Works by Susi Long
Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching
|  In this book, Susi and seven teachers share stories from their six-year study about the barriers and the support found during the early years of teaching. This book provides validation for new teachers, insights for job-seekers, as well as advice for those who would support new teachers. |
"Passionless Text and Phonics First: Through a Child’s Eyes"
|  In this May 2004 Language Arts article, Susi draws from her nine month study of one child’s experiences learning to get along in a new cultural setting to make strong points about the fallacies of using passionless decodable text and phonics-first or phonics-only approaches to teaching reading. |
"Exploring Change: NCTE's Reading Initiative"
|  In this issue of Primary Voices Susi and teachers from her NCTE Reading Initiative group in Columbia, SC introduce the nature of their work together—weekly study group meetings which they explored professional literature, planned for experimenting with new ideas in their classrooms, and discussed, questioned, and provided support. |
Co-Editor, NCTE’s School Talk
|  Susi serves as co-editor of NCTE’s quarterly publication, School Talk. Issues from the 2005-2006 year explored topics such as: Rethinking Small Groups, Honoring Home and Community Literacies, Assessment as Knowing and Being Known, and What Teachers Have to Say About What Really Matters. |
Other Selected Published Works by Susi Long
| Susi Long has published in many journals, including the Ohio Journal of the English Language Arts, Diversities in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking and Doing, and Reading Literacy, and Language. |
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Related Resources
Comments from Workshop Participants
| Read comments like this: Susi possesses knowledge, enthusiasm and vigor. She truly wants to empower us to feel that we can (and will) make a difference in the lives of students.
from Susi’s students and participants in her workshops.
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Education and Professional Experiences
| Susi has an undergraduate degree in elementary education/early childhood education, a masters in reading, and a doctorate in early and middle childhood education. She has classroom, state, and university experiences. |
Awards and Honors
| Susi is the recipient of the NCTE Promising Researcher Award; the George Lackey Award for Inspirational Teaching from the University of South Carolina College of Education; and is the incoming NCTE Elementary Section Assistant Chair. |
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