revised 11/26/97
Professor
University of Northern Iowa
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Orava Association for Democratic Education
104 Seerly
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0704
USA
e-mail: jeannie.steele@uni.edu
Ph.D. University of Virginia 1985 Major: Reading
Minors: Curriculum
and Research
M.Ed. James Madison University 1977 Major: Reading
BA. University of North 1966 Major: History
Carolina - Charlotte
1994-present Co-director, Orava Project Bratislava and Dolnz Kubin, Slovokia
1992-present Associate Professor Curriculum and Instruction University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA
| 1987-1992 | Assistant Professor | Curriculum and Instruction University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA |
| 1986-1987 | Associate Professor | Blue Ridge Community College Weyers Cave, VA |
| 1984-1986 | Assistant Professor | Blue Ridge Community College Weyers Cave, VA |
| 1992-present | Co-director | UNI/Slovak Education Program University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA |
| 1992-1994 | Coordinator | Reading/Language Arts Program Curriculum and Instruction University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA |
| 1987-1992 | Director | UNI Reading Clinic University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA |
| 1986-1987 | Director | Writing and Learning Across the Curriculum Project Blue Ridge Community College Weyers Cave, VA |
| 1982-1984 | Reading Specialist | John Wayland Intermediate School Bridgewater, VA |
| 1982-1983 | Graduate Assistant | McGuffey Reading Center University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
| 1974-1982 | Reading Specialist | John Wayland Intermediate School Bridgewater, VA |
| 1973-1974 | Teacher (7th grade, Science) |
Riverheads Elementary School Staunton, VA |
| 1969-1973 | Teacher (Reading) | Meadow Hill Middle School Missoula, MT |
| 1967-1968 | Teacher (Kindergarten) | Little Egg Harbor Township Elementary School Tuckerton, NJ |
| 1966-1967 | Teacher (5th grade) | Briarwood Elementary School Charlotte, NC |
| 1982-1987 | Adjunct Instructor | University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
| 1977-1982 | Adjunct Instructor | James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA |
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has selected UNI's College of Education to receive the 1995-96 Distinguished Award in International Education. Seven COE international programs including the Orava Project documented excellence in international education. Award given February 1996.
Orava Project highlighted for success by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in a speech to the North Atlantic Assembly of NATO, Budapest, Hungary, May, 1995.
Orava Project cited in Senate FY96 and FY97 Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Report as a successful model educational restructuring program.
Orava Project highlighted in articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April, 1996, and The Reading Teacher, February 1997 and Reading Today August/September 1994 and April/May 1997. Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project highlighted in Reading Today, April/May, 1997 and August/September, 1997.
Who's Who in American Education, 1989-1990
Annual Virginia Excellence in Education Award for Reading, writing, and learning across the curriculum project. Awarded October 1987.
Books
Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., & Temple, C. T., (in press). Cooperative Learning. Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy (English version), Open Society Institute, N.Y., N.Y., Soros Foundations translated versions for Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia.
Steele, J. L., Meredith, K. S., & Temple, C. T. (1997). A Framework for Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum. Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy (English version), Open Society Institute, N.Y., N.Y., Soros Foundations translated versions for Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia.
Steele, J. L., Meredith, K. S., & Temple, C. T., (1997). Promoting Critical Thinking. Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy (English version), Open Society Institute, N.Y., N.Y., Soros Foundation translated versions for Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia.
Temple, C. T., Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. (1997). Reading, Writing and Discussion in Every Discipline. Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy (English version), Open Society Institute, N.Y., N.Y., Soros Foundations translated versions for Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia.
Temple, C. T., Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. (1997). Further Strategies for Promoting Critical Thinking. Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy (English version), Open Society Institute, N.Y., N.Y., Soros Foundations translated versions for Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia.
Temple, C. T., Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. (1997). Writing Workshop: From Self-expression to Written Arguments. Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy (English version), Open Society Institute, N.Y., N.Y., Soros Foundations translated versions for Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia.
Temple, C. T., Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1997). How Children Learn. Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy (English version), Open Society Institute, N.Y., N.Y., Soros Foundations translated versions for Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L., (1985). The troubled reader: Access to intervention for the school psychologist (monograph). Des Moines: Iowa State Public Department of Public Instruction.
Chapters
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (in press). Learning for Understanding. In Kollarikova, Z. (Ed.) Critical Thinking II. Slovak Pedagogical Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., (1997). Children and Reading. In Bear, Minke & Thomas (Eds.) Children's Needs II: Development, Problems, and Alternatives. National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), Bethesda, MD, pp. 397-405.
Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. (1995). Writing as a tool for enhancing critical thinking. In Kolláriková, Z., (ed.) Critical Thinking, State Pedagogical Institute of Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia, 77-90.
Meredith K. S., & Steele, J. L., (1995). Questioning for critical thinking. In Kolláriková, Z., (ed.) Critical Thinking. State Pedagogical Institute of Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia, 55-76.
Chapter in Progress
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. Trends in Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Volume III Handbook on Reading Research, M. Kamil, R. Barr, P. D. Pearson (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, to be released Fall, 1999.
Refereed Journal Articles
Beach, S., Meredith, K., Steele, J., Melvin, M., & Pokorná, A. (in press) Literacy and Democracy, Reading Psychology.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L., (1996) Higher Level Questioning for Higher Level Thinking. Pedagogical Spectrum, State Pedagogical Institute of Slovakia, Vol. 4, No. 11/12. 15-36.
Seawell, L., Smaldino, S., Steele, J., & Yokota, J. (1994). A comparison of attitudes and performances of elementary students toward word processing and writing by hand in a process approach. Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 5(1), 43-59.
Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. (1991). Standardized measures of reading achievement for placement in chapter 1 and learning disability programs: A nationwide survey of assessment practices. Reading Research and Instruction, 30, 17-31.
Steele, J. L., & Steele, P. (1991). The thinking-writing connection: Using clustering to help students write persuasively. Reading Horizons, 32 (1), 41-51.
Steele, J. L., & Meredith K. S. (1991). The other basic skill: Learning to learn. Occupational Education Forum, 19, 24-32.
Lloyd, B. H., & Steele, J. L. (1986). Assessment of reading: comprehension: A comparison of constructs. Reading Psychology, 7, 1-10.
Book Review
Steele, J. L. (1996). [A Review of Higher Education in Belarus, A. Prokhorov (Ed.).], International Review of Education, UNESCO, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 534-535.
Nonrefereed Journal Article
Steele, J. L., Meredith, K. S., & Miklušicáková, E., (Eds.) (May, 1997). Orava Project Journal. Orava Foundation for Democratic Education, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1-8.
Steele, J. L., Meredith, K. S., & Miklušicáková, E., (Eds.) (March, 1997). Orava Project Journal. Orava Foundation for Democratic Education, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-8.
Steele, J. L. (1996). Democracy is everyday living, democracy has to be loved, InfoIuventa, Bratislava, Slovakia, Vol. 7, No 1, pp. 14-15.
Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L. (1994). Helping Educators Teach Democracy in Slovakia, Reading Today: International Reading Association, Vol. 12, No. 1, p.8.
Steele, J. L., (1991). Portfolio assessment. A dialogue for teacher education reform. Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series, 3 (1). Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa.
ERIC Documents
Steele, J. L. (1993). The teacher educator's role as a partner in school district change process. Resources in Education, 28(8). ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 356 189
Steele, J. L., & Meredith K. S., (1991). Comprehensive language learning philosophy and goals. Resources in Education, 26, (5). ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 326 876.
Newsletter
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L., (1997). Orava News. Orava Foundation for Democratic Education, Vol. 1, No. 2.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L., (1996). Orava News. Orava Foundation for Democratic Education, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Steele, J. L. (1988). Writing for thinking and learning across curriculum. Cross-over: The writing across the curriculum newsletter. Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa.
Miscellaneous
Steele, J. L, Meredith, K. S., (1995). Democratic Pedagogy National Staff Development Manual, Orava Foundation for Democratic Education, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L. (1995). Sustaining Democracy through Education 1995 Annual Report of The Orava Project: A Slovak Republic/University of Northern Iowa Collaborative National Education Restructuring Program, Orava Foundation for Democratic Education, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1990). Reading and special education placement: A national survey of assessment practices of school psychologist. Proceedings, National Association of School Psychologists.
Unpublished Works
Reports
Temple, C. T., Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., Walter, S. (1997). Report on the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Institute.
Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. USAID Quarterly Monitoring Reports each quarter from August 1994 to present.
Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. (1991). Report of the Moline reading committee to the curriculum council and the board of the Moline school district. Moline Public School, Moline, IL.
Co-authored with UNI Writing Across Curriculum Committee: Writing at UNI: A report to the university senate. Report of the WAC program at UNI for the past three years. Includes results of faculty survey conducted spring 1990. Presented to Faculty Senate April 1992.
Steele, J. L., & Lewis, J. Y., (1990). West Marshall school district reading program: Evaluation report.
Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S., (1989). Reading improvement program: Evaluation report 1988-1989, Moline Public Schools #40.
Co-authored with committee, (1988). An action agenda for the college of education: A report of the task force on college of education organization.
Miscellaneous
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1993). Reading and writing scope for the first through sixth grades. Moline Public Schools, Moline, IL
Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S., (1991). Working together -- growing together: Constructive evaluation of language learning. Moline Public Schools, Moline, IL.
Steele, J. L. (Ed.), (1990). UNI Reading Clinic Handbook. Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa.
Steele, J. L., Estes, T. H., & Shirley, B., (1989). Augusta County resource program: A model for improving teaching and learning across the curriculum.
Steele, J. L., (1985). Recall and comprehension: The interactive relationship of text and reader. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., Temple, C. T., & Walter, S. (1997). Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project, Open Society Institute, New York, New York, $3,500,000.00.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1996). The Orava Project: A Slovak Republic/University of Northern Iowa Collaborative National Education Restructuring Extension and Expansion Program, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), $2,100,000.00.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1996) Open Society Fund, Technology Support Grant, $4,000.00.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1995) United States Information Agency (USIA), Washington, D.C., Ancillary support for the Orava Project, $11,500.00.
Meredith, K., & Steele, J. L. (1994). The Orava Project: A Slovak Republic/University of Northern Iowa Collaborative National Education restructuring Program, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), $1,630,000.00.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1994). United States Information Agency (USIA), Washington, D.C., $7,500.00. An Academic Specialist grant to support the Orava Project.
Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. (1993). United States Information Agency (USIA), Washington, D.C. $7,500.00. An Academic Specialist grant to support educational leadership efforts in he Republic of Slovakia.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1993). School Change Grant, $10,000.00. State of Illinois Department of Education, Springfield, IL. Grant to Moline Public Schools for support of implementation of alternative assessment practices.
Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., & Erickson, K. (1993). Communicating with Stakeholders: Standards Assessments and Evaluation. School Improvement Services, Illinois State Department of Education $10,000.00.
Meredith, K. S., & Steele, J. L. (1992). University of Northern Iowa /Slovak Republic Model for Educational Reform. $40,000.00. Iowa International Development Foundation, Des Moines, IA.
Steele, J. L. (1992). An Investigation of the Efficacy of a Comprehensive Construction Evaluation of a Language Learning Program. $2,500.00. UNI Summer Fellowship.
Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., & Erickson, K. Project MILE (Moline Improvement in Literacy Education). $150,000.00. Department of School Improvement Services, Illinois State Grant, Moline Public Schools, Moline, IL, 1991-July 1, 1992.
Steele, J. L. Project MILE: A Districtwide Program for effective LongTerm Change in Literacy Education. $500.00. Graduate College, University if Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, May 1, 1991-May 1, 1992.
Meredith, K., Steele, J. L., & Erickson, K. (1992). Constructive Evaluation of Language Learning Assessment Program. School Improvement Services, Illinois State Department of Education, $10,000.00.
Steele, J. L., Tidwell, D., & Lewis, J. An Evaluation of Teacher Beliefs about Whole Language. $900.00. Graduate College, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, May 1, 1991-May 1, 1992.
Steele, J. L., Meredith, K., & Erickson, K. Improving Student Learning Across the Curriculum. $160,000.00. Department of School Improvement Services, Illinois State Grant, Moline Public Schools, Moline, IL, July 1, 1990-July 1, 1991.
Co-authored with COE committee, IBM Program for Teacher Preparation and Enhancement in the Use of Available Technology. $310,000.00. 1990.
Steele, J. L., Meredith, K., & Erickson, K. Reading Improvement Program. $150,437.85. Department of School improvement Services, Illinois State Grant, Moline Public Schools, Moline, IL. July 1, 1989-July 1, 1990.
Steele, J. L. Assessment of Comprehension of the Main Idea in Text. 1988 summer eight-week summer fellowship., $4,000.00.
Steele, J. L., & Petcher, D. Reading, Writing, and Learning Across the Curriculum. $91,000.00. Funds for Excellence in Education grant awarded by the State Council of Higher Education, Richmond, VA, 1986.
The Virginia Reading to Learn Project: Training resource teacher focusing language as a tool for learning. Funded by Department of Education, State of Virginia, approximately $100,000.00 each fiscal year from July 1, 1985 to June 30, 1992. Co-authored the original bill with committee and, as legislative chair of the Virginia State Reading Association, led the legislative effort for enactment of the bill.
Co-director of Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking a 3.5 million three year Soros Foundations funded multinational school/university instructional change project. Focus of the project is to infuse into elementary and secondary classrooms a core of instructional methods that promote critical thinking. Project in 1997 involves nine countries (Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania and Russia) with six more to be added in 1998.
Co-planned, directed and delivered Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Institute. Institute involved 80 participants from 13 countries. This organizational meeting brought together leaders from the nine participating countries and volunteers from universities in the U.S., Canada and Slovakia. Balatonfured, Hungary, June 18-July 3, 1997.
International Exchanges
Co-planned and implemented visits of Slovak educators to U.S. including the following: - Core Teacher Leaders two groups April, 1995 April, 1996
- Semester faculty exchange, Comenius University faculty member Alica Vancova
- Director of Budget for Slovak Ministry of Education and a School Principal visit to Iowa
- Two Slovak students to attend high school and university in U.S.
- The United States Information Agency's International Visitors Program for three Slovak educators for a program developed by Orava Project Co-directors entitled "U.S. Perspectives on Education for Democracy", August 25 - September 12, 1997. Trip involved visits to five states.
INTERNATIONAL (Refereed)
1997, August. Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., & Athanassoula-Reppa, A. Pedagogy and Democracy: Two Case Studies Examining the Role of Instruction in Sustaining Democratic Communities, presented to the 7th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Athens, Greece.
1996, July. Steele, J. L. Project Orava: Empowering Educators as Leaders, a paper presented to the 16th World Congress on Reading, Prague, Czech Republic.
1996, October. Meredith, K. S., Steele, J. L., & Athanassoula-Reppa, A. Democratic instruction as one means of structuring European and global space toward a world system of civil society: A comparative review of two European projects. A paper presented at the Comparative Education Society of Europe annual conference in Athens, Greece.
1995, July. Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. Pedagogical Practice and the Ethic of Democracy, a paper presented to the 9th Annual European Conference of the International Reading Association, Budapest, Hungary.
1995, October. Steele, J. L. Educating Children with Special Needs, International Conference of the Emerging Child, Námestovo, Slovakia.
1994, April. Steele, J. L., & Meredith, K. S. Literature: Key to Literacy. A symposium, presented at the annual conference of the International Reading Association, Portfolios: Assessing Literacy Growth, Toronto, Canada.
1993, May. Steele, J. L. Collaboration for educational change: International partnerships and the Orava Project. A paper presented at the Conference on Education for the 21st Century: Reflections on Issues, and Prospects, Educational Situations in the USA, Slovak Republic, and Czech Republic. Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
INTERNATIONAL (Nonrefereed)
1997, November. Steele, J. L. How children learn and the teachers' role in the process. Invited plenary speech, Education and Democracy for the 21st century, Bratislava, Slovakia.
1996, November. Steele, J. L. Empowering professionals as teacher leaders. Invited plenary speech, International Conference on Democracy in Education, Bratislava, Slovakia.
NATIONAL/REGIONAL (Refereed)
1997, December, a symposium to be delivered. Steele, J. L., Meredith, K. S., Walter, S. Democracy Building Through Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Annual Conference of the National Reading Conference, Scottscale, AZ.
1996, December. Steele, J. L., Meredith, K. S., Beed, P., Miklušicáková, E. & Kollasch, M. Fostering and sustaining democracy: A model program based on critical literacy/pedagogy. A symposium presented at the annual conference of the National Reading Conference, Charleston, SC.
1996, November. Steele, J. L. Empowering professionals as teacher leaders. International Conference on Democracy in Education, Bratislava, Slovakia.
1994, December. Steele, J. L., Meredith, K. S., & Shannon, P. Critical Literacy as a Foundation for Critical Democracy, a symposium presented to National Reading Conference, San Diego, California.
1993, December. Democracy in education: The Orava Project in the Republic of Slovakia. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Reading Conference, Charleston, SC.
1993, April. Successful implementation of a districtwide portfolio based whole language assessment program: A model process. International Reading Association, San Antonio, TX.
1993, February. A districtwide staff development program for transitioning from a basal to a whole language literacy program: The teacher educator's role as a partner in the change process. American Association of College for Teacher Education, San Diego, CA.
1992, December. An investigation of the efficacy of a districtwide comprehensive portfolio assessment program. National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX.
1992, December. I teach what I know: An examination of teachers beliefs about whole language instruction in the classroom. National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX.
1992, December. Portfolios: An open dialogue. National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX.
1992, May. Project MIL update: The Moline language learning assessment and evaluation plan. International Reading Association, Orlando, FL.
1992, February. Word processing and the writing process: A descriptive study of writing performance. Association for Educational Technology, Washington, D.C.
1991, December. Project MILE: A districtwide staff development program for effecting long-term change in literacy education. National Reading Conference, Palm Springs, CA.
1991, December. An examination of teacher beliefs about whole language. National Reading Conference, Palm Springs, CA.
1991, December. A descriptive study comparing computer-based word processing and handwriting on articles and performance of 3rd- and 4th- grade students involved in a program based on a process approach to writing. National Reading Conference, Palm Springs, CA.
1991, October. Writer's workshop for the middle grades. Nineteenth Plains Regional International Reading Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
1991, October. An examination of teacher beliefs about whole language: A pilot study. Nineteenth Plains Regional International Reading Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
1991, May. Assessing the achievement of chapter 1 and learning disability students: What it is and what it should be. Institute presented at International Reading Association, Las Vegas, NV.
1990, November. The impact of goal orientation on affect, cognition behavior, and learning performance: The link between attributions and reading research. National Reading Conference, Miami, FL.
1990, May. Reading and special education placement: A national survey of assessment practices of school psychologist. National Association of School Psychologists, San Francisco, CA.
1989, May. Standardized measures of reading assessment for placement of children in special and remedial programs: A nationwide survey of state practices. National Reading Association, Austin, TX.
1989, May. Standardized measures of reading achievement for Placement of children in remedial programs: A nationwide study of state practices. International Reading Association, New Orleans, LA.
1989, May. Effecting instructional change through comprehensive staff development. International Reading Association, New Orleans, LA.
1988, December. Recall and comprehension: The interactive relationship of text and reader. National Reading Conference, Tucson, AZ.
1987, December. Augusta County resource program: A model for improving teaching and learning across the curriculum. American Reading Forum, Saratosa, FL.
1987, May. Implementing new directions in secondary reading: School area and state examples of excellence. International Reading Association, Anaheim, CA.
1987, May. Reforms in Education: A look at the major reports. U.S. Legislative Workshop, International Reading Association, Anaheim, CA.
1986, April. Legislative advocacy: Reading professional making a difference. U.S. Legislative Workshop, International Reading Association, Philadelphia, PA.
STATE/LOCAL
1992, October. International educational experience and faculty growth. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
1992, September. A report on education since the Velvet Revolution. Phi Delta Kappa Meeting, Cedar Falls, IA
1991, September. Improving student learning across the curriculum. Keynote address for Moline Public Schools, Moline, IL.
1991, August. "...and I growed and I growed": Whole language and the development of literacy. Keynote address for Marshalltown Public Schools Inservice Day, Marshalltown, IA.
1991, August. Integrating language learning through thematic units. Marshalltown Public School, Marshalltown, IA.
1991, July. Whole language: The key to improved student learning across the curriculum. Heartland Institute for Early Adolescents. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
1991, February. Changing school culture through staff development. Brag Brown Colloquium, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
1990, April. Portfolio assessment. Beginning Reading Conference, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
1990, February. Instruction and evaluation of special needs learners. AEA 7, Cedar Falls, IA.
1989, April. Assessment and instruction of emergent literacy. Beginning Reading Conference, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
1989, February. Emerging literacy: Instruction based on developmental stages of learning. Vinton Public Books, Vinton, IA.
1989, February. Emergent literacy assessment and implications for instruction. Midwinter Reading Conference, Black Hawk and Easter Iowa Reading Councils, Waterloo, IA.
1988, November. Recall and comprehension: The interactive relationship of text and reader. Phi Delta Kappa Research Forum, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
1988, October. Early word knowledge assessment: Implications for instruction. Cedar Rapids Area Reading Council, Cedar Rapids, IA.
1988, October. Writing for thinking and learning across curriculum. Writing Across the Curriculum, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
1987, March. Reading resource programs in secondary schools: A model that works. Virginia State Reading Association, Roanoke, VA.
1986, January. Language as a tool for learning in secondary schools. Waynesboro City School Educators, Waynesboro, VA.
1985, October. Critical reading, writing and thinking: A way of learning in content classrooms. Southwest Virginia Annual Conference of International Reading Association, Wakefield, VA.
1985, September. State Leader's Legislative Workgroup, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA.
International Reading Association member, 1973-present
National Reading Conference member, 1973-present
Wrote and successfully presented to board proposal for making International Issues a standing NRC committee, 1995.
Consultant, Geneseo Public School District, Geneseo, IL. Implementing a whole language program with alternative assessment procedures to reflect student learning.
Consultant, Moline Public Schools, Moline, Illinois (1988-present). Direct and deliver a Language Learning Improvement Program for the Moline K-6 teachers and administrators. The first two years of the program entitled, "Improving Student Learning Across the Curriculum," centered around using reading and writing as tools for learning in content areas. More recently, the focus of the program has broadened to include a whole language perspective to language learning. A major component of the program, now entitled Project MILE (Moline Improvement in Literacy Education), include staff development conducted during the past five school years and summers. As a part of the program, a cadre of elementary and middle school master teachers has been developed to serve as a resource to the Moline school district. Staff development includes 15-18 full days of inservice each year and three weeks in summer.
Consultant, The Job Training Partnership Act and the Employment Training Service. Delivered main address, A framework for integrating curriculum: Teaching JTPA adults basic skills. Virginia Beach, VA, April 1991.
Consultant, West Marshall Community Schools. Evaluated K-8 reading/language arts program. Observed in school on three days, interviewed teachers and administrators. Report included evaluation and recommendations, spring 1990.
Consultant, Moline Public Schools. Conducted two days of staff development for Moline teachers for the Writing Program in the district and state 11/10/89, 12/15/89.
Consultant, Moline Public Schools. Worked on developing literacy goals and objectives based on a whole language philosophy. Led site visitations to Des Moines and West Des Moines Public School on March 30 and April 1, 1990.
Administrators' workshops conducted in spring and fall of 1990. Site visitations for administrators fall 1990. 1989-present.
Consultant. The Job Training Partnership Act and The Employment Training service. Prepared and delivered a full-day institute for 300 participants at annual training conference. Presentation entitled Using language as a tool for learning across the curriculum. Effecting Teaching/Learning Strategies for "At-Risk" Students Conference, Lynchburg, VA, March 1989.
Consultant for Virginia State Department of Education. Planned and delivered an institute for the Virginia State Department of Education Content Area Supervisors entitled Thinking and learning in content classrooms through reading, writing, and oral communication. Institute was six full days: August 13-14, August 21-22, August 29, and October 31, 1986.
Consultant. Augusta County Public Schools. Conducted inservice, Working with slow learners in grades 4-8. Augusta County School Board Office, June 23-25, 1986.
Consultant and Editor for Virginia State Department of Education Publication, Language for learning in Virginia's schools, summer 1986.
Consultant. Rockingham County Public Schools. Planned and coordinated a 10-session inservice program on Teaching study skills in high school, Spottswood High School. Delivered first full session, August 26, 1987.
Consultant. Harrisonburg City Public Schools. Planned, coordinated and delivered a Reading and writing across the curriculum program for junior high school teachers and administrators, fall 1986.
Major Speaker. Hampshire County Public Schools. Reading, writing, and thinking for learning in content classrooms. Romney, WV, August 1986.
Major Speaker. Augusta County Public Schools. Creating a positive learning environment in elementary grades: Teachers as keys. Verona Elementary School, August 1986.
Major Speaker. Innovations in school psychology--A workshop for school psychologist. Topic: Reading assessment for intervention. Des Moines, IA, September 1985.
Consultant for Iowa State Department of Education: School Psychologist Services. Served as consultant in the production of a series of videotaped programs for school psychologists. What the school psychologist needs to know about reading, spring 1985.
Web Sites
Orava Project (1995, September). The Orava Project. http://www.uni.edu/coe/orava/
Consortium for Democratic Pedagogy. (1997, September). Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking. http://www.uni.edu/coe/rwct/
Pallischeck visiting scholar program, summer 1990. With Ned Ratekin, planned and coordinated program, New trend in reading assessment: A whole language perspective. A workshop for education featuring Peter Johnson.
Participated in fiber optics pilot testing program for Malcolm Price Laboratory School-university linkage class, fall 1992-spring 1993.
Directed, edited, and narrated a videotape presentation on The UNI Reading Clinic shown on Parents' Weekend fall 1989-1993.
Made demonstration tape of Concept of Word Assessment of a child at the emergent literate stage (1988). Tape used in classes, presentations, and the UNI Reading Clinic.
Made many videotaped demonstration lessons in classrooms in Moline, IL and New Sharon, IA. Tapes which were edited and remain in use in the district include:
Taped, edited, and produced five videotaped demonstration lessons. Taping was done in the course participants' content classrooms using learning strategies and techniques which were taught in a course at the University of Virginia. The videotapes were:
Interviewed for and/or wrote articles for print media including:
Interviewed for various TV and radio programs in Iowa and Slovakia, 1994-present
Interviewed for UNI Radio News Network
Programs aired to 47 radio stations in Iowa and surrounding states
Interviewed for local TV, Radio, and Newsprint articles about The Orava Project - Democratizing Education in the Republic of Slovakia, 1992-1995.
Interviewed for KWWL First News Newsmaker Series
September 19, 1989 - Topic: "Parents as Partners in their Children's Literacy Development."
Interviewed by UNI Public Relations Print Media Department for an article about the UNI Reading Clinic. Article appeared in several papers, including the Courier.
Interviewed for Des Moines Register front-page article, "Students learning to rite before they can rede, spel," January 30, 1989.
Interviewed for WVPT-TV, Teacher Training Program, On and about microcomputers: Computers across the curriculum--Language arts. A production of instructional media and technology, Virginia State Department of Education, program aired February 17, 1987.
Press Conference concerning Blue Ridge Community College grant, Reading, writing and learning across the curriculum, June 30, 1986.
Testified before the House Education Committee on Senate Bill #740--Virginia Reading to Learn Project, January 30, 1986. Bill passed February 1986.
Guest for WVPT Weekly TV show On the Line. Discussion of current issues in reading, December 7, 1983.
Director, T.I.N.A., Teacher Instructional Needs Assessment, National Education Association Survey of Rockingham County Teachers, fall 1978.
Interviewed for thirty-minute radio program on Critical issues in reading, WMRA, Harrisonburg, VA, June 1978.
Videotaped teaching reading class. Videotape used in inservice class for Rockingham County-Harrisonburg City Schools.
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA: