Select Staff Development Consulting Experiences and Conference Presentations

Consulting Experiences
All consulting concerns teaching Standard English in urban classrooms (approaches to the writing process and to successful editing for Standard English usage).

• 2003–2006
  Huntington Middle School, Newport News, VA
  
• 2004–2005
  Northampton school district, Eastern Shore, VA
  
• 2004
  Riverside Elementary School, Newport News, VA
  Interboro Business College, New York
  
• 2003
  Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA

Conference Presentations

2005

• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): "Code-switching: Teaching Sandard English in Urban Classrooms: A Grammar-based Approach." Pittsburgh, PA.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science: “Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms: Codeswitching.” Washington, DC.
• Linguistic Society of America: "From Cold Shoulder to Funded Welcome in the Public Schools.” Oakland, CA.

2004 

• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): “Using Students’ Vernacular to Teach Standard English.” Indianapolis, IN.

2003 

• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): "The Teaching of Standard English."

2002  

• Invited: Plenary Speaker, Louisiana Association of College Composition: “Responding to Urban Students’ Writing: Vantages and Practices.”