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 |  | For more than 30 years, the focus of Diane Stephens' work has been reading. In the early years of her professional life, she worked with adults and with high school students and later with elementary and middle school students. She has been a classroom teacher, a director of two reading clinics, a full time researcher, a professor, and a department chair. She has been extensively involved in university-based pre- and in-service teacher education programs and with teacher study groups. Diane has co-edited several books. She was one of the original co-editors of Primary Voices K-6 and has published dozens of articles about reading, assessment, and teacher education. Since 1999, she has been a teaching team member with the South Carolina Reading Initiative. Diane is a leading figure in reading and literacy at the elementary level and presents on the teaching of reading and on teacher education. |
Diane Stephen's Sample Presentations
Presentation Topics
| Diane presents on the teaching of reading and teaching of coaches. She has extensive teaching and research experiences from her work with the South Carolina Reading Initiative. |
Selected Presentations
| Diane's presentations focus not only on reading instruction, but the processes needed to make positive change within a whole school or district. Topics include teacher's professional growth, effective staff development, challenging the commonplace, and what matters most in language and literacy. The research conducted and synthesized from the South Carolina Reading Initiative forms the basis of much of her current work. |
Research on Literacy
| Million dollar grants from the OERI and thousands of dollars in grant money from the Eisenhower Foundation has enabled Diane to study teachers reading beliefs and practices, student reading skills and strategies gained through teacher involvement in the Reading Initiative, field-based research on instructional strategies, and so much more. Reports are available on these research efforts. |
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Published Works by Diane Stephens
Selected Publications
Assessment as Inquiry: Learning the Hypothesis-Test Process
|  In this NCTE book, Stephens and Jennifer Story describe a different way of thinking, of looking at one's teaching and students' learning as a recursive process of hypothesizing and testing. Elementary teachers wanting authentic assessment techniques will discover ways to integrate teaching and evaluation. |
Primary Voices K-6
Managing the Complexities of a Statewide Reading Program
| In this article from Phi Delta Kappan's Professional Journal for Education, Diane Stephens and other leaders from South Carolina describe the successes and challenges of managing a statewide reading initiative. |
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Related Resources
Education and Professional Experiences
| Diane has a Ph.D from Indiana University and has worked her way from Illinois to Hawaii and now at the University of South Carolina. |
Reading Intiative Curriculum Studies
|  Diane was a developer in the NCTE Reading Initiative Inquiry Studies and directed the utililization and growth of this professional development program throughout the entire state of South Carolina. Learn more about this teacher-based, long-term professional development program here. |
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Diane has edited and published many articles for refereed journals, including NCTE's