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  • Benjamin, Amy

    Benjamin, Amy

    Amy Can Help With:
    GRADES K-12
    โ—Understanding and assessing reading comprehension
    โ—Utilizing academic vocabulary to increase reading comprehension
    โ—Implementing the writing process in content areas
    โ—Teaching grammar
    โ—Utilizing Socratic Seminar to encourage student discourse

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  • Buechner, Karen

    Buechner, Karen

    Karen Can Help With:
    GRADES K-12
    โ—Mind mapping in the content areas
    โ—Using a writer's notebook to unlock student potential
    โ—Culturally Responsive Teaching
    โ—Equity literacy for all learners

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  • Cordova, Sarah

    Cordova, Sarah

    Sarah Can Help With:
    GRADES K-8
    โ—Utilizing literacy assessments to inform instruction
    โ—Writing Curriculum and units of study for using Google Docs
    โ—Providing administrator/parent workshops in the area of literacy
    โ—Implementing poetry Workshop

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  • Heller, Bill

    Heller, Bill

    Bill Can Help With:
    GRADES K-12
    โ—Teaching Academic Vocabulary
    โ—Teaching Advanced Literacy skills
    โ—Using Guided Reading strategies
    โ—Promoting text comprehension
    โ—Creating Performance bases assessment tasks

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  • Jaccarino, Victor

    Jaccarino, Victor

    Victor Can Help With:
    GRADES K-12
    โ—Creating standards based curriculum, units, lessons
    โ—Implementing best practices for reading and writing promoting close reading, raising text complexity, developing argument
    โ—Teaching literacy in the content areas
    โ—Applying critical thinking strategies
    โ—Utilizing teaching protocols and student collaboration

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  • Kolbeck, Lauren

    Kolbeck, Lauren

    Lauren Can Help With:
    GRADES K-12
    โ—Balanced Literacy
    โ—Reading and/or writing workshops
    โ—Role of readers' and/ or writer's notebook

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  • Masin, Carol

    Masin, Carol

    Carol Can Help With:
    GRADES K-5
    โ—Implementing phonics with fidelity
    โ—Understanding and mastering of Alphabetic Principle
    โ—Developing automaticity in decoding
    โ—Supporting teachers to build foundational phonemic awareness and phonics skills, particularly those who are implementing Fundations and Just Words Curriculums

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  • Pecorale, Erica

    Pecorale, Erica

    Erica Can Help With:
    GRADES K-8
    โ—Creating literacy rich environments
    โ—Coaching and Modeling best practices
    โ—Implementing a Balanced Literacy approach
    โ—Developing literacy strategies

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  • Seeley, Kristina

    Seeley, Kristina

    Kristina Can Help With:
    GRADES K-8
    โ—Administering the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System to inform instruction
    โ—Implementing the New York State Standards within the Reading and Writing Workshop K-8
    โ—Using small group Instruction to improve reading achievement
    โ—Empowering literacy coaches to support effective professional development

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  • The Reading & Writing Project

    The Reading & Writing Project

    The Reading & Writing Project Can Help With:
    GRADES K-8
    โ—Begin or Continue Professional Development with Workshop Teaching, Units of Study in Reading, Writing, or Phonics & Whole School or District Literary Reform

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  • Witman, Michelle

    Witman, Michelle

    Michelle Can Help With:
    GRADES K-8
    โ—Using assessment to guide instructional decisions (Data Driven Decision Making)
    โ—Applying Universal Design Principles of Learning in the Classroom Setting
    โ—Shift from IDEA to the Americans with Disabilities Act
    โ—Students with invisible disabilities

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