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was educated at St. Louis University and the University of California, Santa
Barbara, (B.A., English, 1973) and the University of Southern California (M.A.,
Education, 1974). Since graduating, she has worked in the Santa Monica Malibu
USD from 1974 to 2006, serving as a mentor teacher and for two terms as Chair
of the English department at Santa Monica High School.
Outside the classroom she continues as Director of the Reading and Literature
Project at UCLA (since 1991), as Editor of award-winning
California English (since 1996) and has served on several committees and commissions for the
National Council of Teachers of English. She is currently Vice President of the
Association and will serve as president in 2009-10.
Her writing has been published in several newspapers and periodicals, notably The Los Angeles Times and The Outlook, where she was Education columnist and an Op-Ed page columnist. In professional
journals she contributed as a columnist to
Voices in the Middle, an NCTE journal, from 2003 to 2006. Additionally, she has contributed to The San Francisco Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Christian Science Monitor, Phi Delta Kappan, Teacher magazine, American Educator, Education Week, and English Journal.
Presentations include the World Congress on Reading, numerous NCTE, CATE, and
California Reading Association conferences, keynote speeches, and workshops at
conferences across the USA.
She has received several awards from local, state, and national associations.
Most recently, she was awarded the National Council of Teachers of English
“Teacher of Excellence Award” in 2006.
You may view a comprehensive list of her presentations and publications through
the links below.
