Leap Year Literacy Centers

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

For more than 3 decades, I have taught everything from K to 5, G/T to Reading Recovery, and enrichment to Title I. It was my privilege to develop & co-author a district model for gifted/talented education for 2 districts and to develop & implement a system for mentoring young gifted children with experts in their areas of interest. As an education specialist at the U of IL, I developed differentiated curriculum and evaluation tools for gifted students and lectured graduate classes in G/T. Additionally, I have guest lectured at the local community college and IL State Univ. Reading Recovery training, while rigorous and demanding, has improved every aspect of my teaching. The training has made me a better observer and problem solver. The richness of my experiences allows me to be a versatile and expansive developer of curricula.

• Fun Stuff
• GATE
• Literacy Center Ideas
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Professional Documents
• Graphic Organizers
• Test Prep
• Games
• Activities
• Lesson Plans (Bundled)
• Printables
• Research
• Bulletin Board Ideas
• Posters
• Projects
• Homeschool Curricula
• Cooperative Learning
• Scaffolded Notes
• Thematic Unit Plans
• Math Centers
• Task Cards
• Lesson Plans (Individual)
• Minilessons
• Guided Reading Books
• Computation
• Worksheets