Professional Consulting Experiences
Writing Workshop: Integrating Writing Instruction with Standards for the Teaching of Reading, Port Huron RESA, February, 2007.
Teaching Multicultural Literature: Challenges and Opportunities, Clayton County Schools, December 2006.
Strategic Planning to Develop Technology Programs for a National Writing Project Site, National Writing Project Annual Meeting, Nashville. November 2006.
NCTE Reads: Book Discussions of Our Favorite Literature. NCTE Annual Convention, Nashville. November 2006.
Researching and Writing Managing Literacy, Mothering America, September 2006. For graduate students in literacy studies at the University of Michigan
Teaching Holocaust Literature, Clayton County Schools, February 2006.
Marketing and Managing Professional Development at National Writing Project sites, half-day workshop for NWP site directors, NWP Annual convention, Pittsburgh. November 2005.
NWP Inservice Institute for 12 NWP Sites, Babson Conference Center, Wellesley, Mass., July 26-30, 2005. Presentations and workshops as part of a 6-person leadership team facilitating the conference.
“Models of Inservice: NWP Professional Development Approaches at Work,” NWP Spring Meeting, Washington, DC. April 2005.
“Teaching Literature by Women and Minorities,” US Embassy Workshop for Teachers from Tubengin, Germany. September 2002.
“A Review of Recent American Literatures.” US Embassy Workshop for Teachers from Munich, Germany. September 2002. [repeated in Freiburg, Germany]
“The Making American Literatures Project” U.S. Embassy Workshop for Teachers from Koln, Germany. September 2002.
“Using Ethnographic Techniques to Build a Promotion and Tenure Portfolio,” CCCC, Denver, Colorado. March 2001.
“Project Outreach: A Retrospective,” National Writing Project annual meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November 2000.
“Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching,” Agnes Scott College, February, 2000.
Reviewing Grant Proposals
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Individual Fellowships, 2007
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Institutes/Seminars, 2002.
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Division (major grants), 2001.
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Focus Grant Program, fall 1996.
Reviewing Book Manuscripts and Books
- University of Indiana Press, book manuscript, 2003.
- Bedford/St. Martin’s, American Literature Anthology, 2003.
- University of Nebraska Composition/Rhetoric series, book manuscript, 2001.
- Blackwell Press, book manuscripts and proposals, 2001 and 2002.
- Teachers College Press, book manuscript, spring 1999.
- Book reviews for American Periodicals and Studies in American Fiction.
- The College Board/ETS—reviewer, Standards for the Teaching of English/Language Arts
- English/Language Arts Standards, Atlanta Public Schools, winter, 1998
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