• Piedmont Community Charter School, Gastonia, NC; K-2 Reading, Principal Jennifer Purdee; spring 2010.
• Briarwood Elementary School, Charlotte, NC; Talk! About Thinking Reading Comprehension Series; Literacy Facilitator Njeri Legrand; 2008-2010.
• Western Region Education Service Alliance ( WRESA), Asheville, NC; coordinator Carol Bennett; Big Gains in Content Writing (Mar 08), Thinking Out Loud on Paper: Inferring (Sept 09); Reading-Writing Projects (July 2010).
• Charlotte Country Day School, NC; Creating a Critical Reader’s Classroom in Middle and Upper School, NC; Carol Morris, Director of Academic Programs; 5-day Institute; 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
• Charlotte Country Day School, NC; Special Area Teachers; Finding the Overlaps in the Comprehension Curriculum; Director of Studies Meredith Vetter; 2009-2010.
• Sharon Road Elementary School, Charlotte, NC; TALK About Thinking: An Overview of the Proficient Reader Strategies; Literacy Facilitator Rebecca England; Aug 18, 2009.
• South Learning Community, Charlotte, NC; Differentiated and Sustained Reflective Writing in the Classroom; Dr. Olivine Roberts, Executive Director; 2008-2009.
• Cotwsold Elementary School, Charlotte, NC; From Workbooks to Working Books: Using Daybooks in the Classroom and Assessing Metacognitive Growth; Principal Denise Hearn; summer 2007, fall 2007, and spring 2008.
• Pittsford Central School District, NY; Needs Assessment in Writing; Elementary Director Dr. Holly Jones; May 29-June 1, 2007.
• Pittsford Central School District, NY; Dr. Holly Jones, Elementary Director; Overview of the Proficient Reader Strategies and Connections, summer 2005; Overview, Synthesizing, summer 2006; Overview, Inferring, Writing Workshop, summer 2007.
• UNC Charlotte Writing Project, NC; Saturday Seminar Series, Talk About Thinking! Teaching the Proficient Reader Strategies; Director Dr. Lilian Brannon, 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07.
• Kannapolis Middle School, Kannapolis, NC; From Workbook to Working Book: Using Daybooks in the Classroom; Academic Facilitator Sandy Fogg; Aug. 16, 2007.
• UNC Charlotte Writing Project, NC; Presenters’ Collaborative Institute, Teacher-Research Institute with Dr. Leslie Cooke, and Summer Institute with Tony Iannone and Dr. Lilian Brannon; summers 05, 06, and 07.
• Children’s Community School Retreat, Davidson, NC; Principal Joy Warner; Connections and Questions, May 18-20, 2007; Assessing Readers, June 2007; Daybooks, August 2007.
• Charlotte Country Day School, NC; Who’s Asking the Questions? Headmaster Peggy Otey; Feb. 20, 2007.
• Beverly Woods Elementary School, Charlotte, NC; Principal Caroline Horne; 4th-Grade Writing, 2001; Overview of the Proficient Reader Strategies, Aug. 18, 2006; Question the Author, 2007.
• Lowell Elementary School, Seattle (Wa.) Schools; Principal Julie Breidenbach; Overview, and Questions, summer 2005; Daybooks and Fiction Projects, Nonfiction Projects, Aug. 28-29, 2006.
• Cabarrus County Schools, NC; Summer Institute Week for Teacher Assistants; prepared county’s assistants to meet NCLB requirements; Title I Director Marion Bish; 2003, 2004, and 2005.
• Macon County Schools, NC; Director Tammy Tisdale; Elementary and Middle School, Reading, fall 2003; Writing Workshop for Elementary and Middle School Teachers; 2005.
• Cabarrus County Schools, NC; Special Area Teachers; Integrating Reading with Special Area Curriculum; Jackie Whitfield, Elementary Director; Aug. 2004.
• Royal Oaks Elementary School, Concord, NC; Principal Brian Schultz; Fix-Up Strategies and First Discussions, July 21, 2004; Reading is Better in a Group! Strategy Circles in Action, 2003.
• Coltrane-Webb Elementary School, Concord, NC; Reading is Better in a Group! Strategy Circles in Action; Principal Mark Johnson; July 19, 2003.
• W. M. Irvin Elementary School, Concord, NC; Building Comprehension: Developing a Schoolwide Intermediate Title One Program; Principal Dr. Katherine Propst; July 2002.
• W. M. Irvin Elementary School, Concord, NC; Narrative Writing; Principal Kelly Propst; 2001.
• Vance High School, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, NC; advised co-teacher Diane Wildman on teaching reading strategies to struggling 10th-grade English students; 2000.
• 10th-Grade English Teachers Institute, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, NC; Teaching Struggling Readers to Read; Director Diane Wildman; 1999 and 2000.
• Wingate Elementary School, Union County, NC; Comprehension Strategies based on Mosaic of Thought; Principal Kristy Thomas; 2000-2002.
• Union County Schools, NC; Building Comprehension; Trudy Griffin; summer 2001.
• Wingate Elementary School, Union County, NC; Narrative Writing; Principal Kristy Thomas; 1999-2000.
• Virginia State University Writing Project, Petersburg, Virginia; Teacher Research: What Can I Learn From Children if I Listen? July 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.

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I individualize workshops to meet teachers' needs. Examples include sharing how daybooks re learning tools; showing videotapes of students learning from me, so teachers can see the possibilities; and giving teachers the chance to write, talk and learn information differentiated for them.

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---2nd grade teacher