Nancy Dean, Ed.S., is a professor emerita at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. During her 36 years in education, she has taught middle- and high-school English, special education, reading, debate, social studies, English for speakers of other languages, and Advanced Placement English.
Committed to school reform and meaningful professional development, Nancy has worked extensively with teachers and school leaders in both urban and rural schools. She serves on the leadership teams of the National Literacy Project and the Florida Reading Initiative and works as a lead trainer for both of these organizations.
In addition, she is a national consultant in secondary literacy and literacy leadership and director of Leadership through Reading, a cross-age tutoring program. Nancy’s areas of expertise include
•The reading-writing connection through the teaching of voice
•Content-area literacy
•Working with literacy teams to build school literacy action plans •Reading instruction for struggling readers
•Building a school culture of literacy
•*Cross-age tutoring for enhanced literacy instructionbr>
Contact Nancy at ndean@NationalLiteracyProject.org or through Maupin House Publishing.
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