Dr. Erin Gillett, Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning, and her colleague, Abbey Payeur, Bethel University, St. Paul, presented a session at the Summer Conference of the Association of Teacher Educators in Nashville. The title of their presentation was Supporting Each Other: Shifting to the Science of Reading in Minnesota’s Teacher Preparation Programs.
Erin Gillett, School of Teaching and Learning, along with colleagues Susan Ellingson and Teri Langlie, faculty in the Education Department at Concordia College, presented a session at the 2019 Literacy Conference in Moorhead on June 20. Their presentation, “What is Your Contingency Plan? Effective Scaffolding During Guided Reading,” examined how to provide targeted prompts with readers to support their use […]
Natalie Huntley, a May 2019 graduate in Elementary Inclusive Education, with additional licenses in special education and middle level math, presented a session at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Indianapolis June 13-15. Her presentation, “Somali Representation in Children’s Literature,” is the result of her efforts to find literature that reflects the lived experiences of Somali families. Huntley was an […]
Boyd Bradbury (School of Teaching and Learning), Erin Gillett (STL), Marci Glessner (STL), Kathrina O’Connell (Educational Leadership doctoral student), and Ximena Suarez-Sousa (STL) provided professional development sessions to Peruvian elementary and secondary teachers on March 7 and 8, 2019. The sessions focused on 1) Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), 2) evidence-based instructional practices in literacy (Tier 1), 3) evidence-based instructional […]
Boyd Bradbury, Erin Gillett, Marci Glessner, Kathrina O’Connell (Educational Leadership doctoral student), and Ximena Suarez-Sousa presented at the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP) in Lima, Peru on March 7, 2019. The presentation introduced the audience to the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and to the process of developing local academic norms for the formative assessments measuring the basic early literacy […]