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Strickland To Speak
At TWU During Verizon Eminent Scholar Series
5/26/04
DENTON — “Fostering
Literacy at Home and School” will be the focus of a presentation
by Dr. Dorothy Strickland, professor of reading at Rutgers, the
state University of New Jersey, as part of the Verizon Eminent Scholar
Series at Texas Woman’s University.
The lecture, which is
free and open to the public, will be presented at 6 p.m. Monday,
June 14, in the auditorium of the Multipurpose Classroom and Laboratory
Building, located on Bell Avenue on TWU’s Denton campus. For
more information, contact the TWU Department of Reading at (940)
898-2227.
Dr. Strickland is the
Samuel DeWitt Professor of Education at Rutgers and the former Arthur
I. Gates Professor at Teacher College Columbia University. She taught
in the New Jersey public schools for 11 years — six as a classroom
teacher and five as a reading consultant and learning disability
specialist.
Dr. Strickland is past
president of both the International Reading Association and its
Reading Hall of Fame, and is a past recipient of the association’s
Outstanding Teacher Educator of Reading Award. She was the 1998
recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English Award as
Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts, and in 1994 she received
the Rewey Bell Inglis Award for Outstanding Women in the Teaching
of English.
Her publications include
more than 100 articles and books.
Funding from Verizon
enables the TWU Department of Reading to invite scholars representing
a wide range of early literacy expertise and perspective to meet
with teachers who are a part of the Verizon Early Literacy Project
as well as other graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and
community educators.
In addition to the Eminent
Scholars Series, the Verizon Early Literacy Grant also funds a collaborative
effort between TWU and local school districts to train classroom
literacy facilitators who, in turn, train classroom teachers in
their districts. The project provides kindergarten through second
grade teachers with knowledge and skills that enable them to maximize
the literacy potential of every child in their regular classrooms.
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For Further Information
Contact:
Karen Treat
Senior Copywriter
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: ktreat@twu.edu
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