Education
The University of Chicago, Department of Education - Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction (English Education)
- Dec. 10, 1999: Degree awarded
- Dissertation title: The English Methods Course as Support for Coherent Secondary Literature Instruction
Saint Xavier College, Chicago - M.A. in Education - Reading (January, 1989)
- Co-chair of Graduate Reading Association, 1985-86
- Vice-President of Alpha Upsilon Alpha, 1986-88
Northern Illinois University - B.S.Ed., Magna Cum Laude
- Major: Elementary Education
- Minor: English
Professional Credentials
- Illinois Type 03 (Elementary, K - 9)
- Jr. High Endorsements: Language Arts, Reading, Social Science
- Illinois Type 10 (Reading, K - 12)
Presentations
- March, 2010 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Creating a Community of Learners: Multiple Texts, Multiple Genres, Multiple Levels of Difficulty, and Multiple Language Processes"
- June, 2009 Presentation for ELED 450 Corrective Reading class "Creating a Community of Learners: Multiple Texts, Multiple Genres, Multiple Levels of Difficulty, and Multiple Language Processes"
- March, 2009 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Expository Writing and the Inquiry Process"
- March, 2008 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Field Trip Inquiry in Primary Grades"
- March, 2007 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Looking for Lincoln"
- March, 2006 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Making History Real: Using Primary Sources to Support Literacy and Content Knowledge"
- March, 2005 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Let‟s Find Out Units"
- March, 2004 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Supporting and Assessing Spelling Development"
- May, 2003 48th Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, Orlando "Finding the Self among Differing Selves: Reading, Responding, and Writing with Autobiography" with Dr. Joanne Anania, Governors State University
- March, 2003 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Helping Writer Learn „How To‟ without Formulas"
- December, 2001 National Reading Conference, San Antonio "What Can Be Learned from Parent-Child Interactions in Bookstores?"
- with Dr. Susan L‟Allier, Northern Illinois University March, 2001 Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield "Guiding Students‟ Literature Discussions"
- February, 2000 GSU Beginning Teachers Program "Reading Strategies for Low-Achieving Students"
- May, 1992 University of Chicago, Department of Education, Workshop on Literacy "Alternatives to Skills and Drills in Remedial Reading Instruction"
Publications
- Summer, 2006 "Reading Teachers and Research: Consumers to Evaluators to Producers" published in Journal of Reading Education, 31 (3), 21-28
- October, 2005 "D‟Aulaires to Freedman and Beyond: Lincoln Biographies" published in Illinois Reading Council Journal, 33 (4), 21-31
- August, 2005 "Chicago, from the Fire to the Fair (1871 – 1893)" Adventure of the American Mind website developed and published at http://aam.govst.edu/projects/bwinicki/
- May, 2005 Accepted for publication in Fall 2005 by Illinois Reading Council Journal "D‟Aulaires to Freedman and Beyond: Lincoln Biographies"
- February, 2005 Revised manuscript submitted to Journal of Reading Education "Reading Teachers and Research: Consumers to Evaluators to Producers"
- February, 2004 "Guiding Students‟ Literature Discussions" published Illinois Reading Council Journal, 32 (1), 30-37
- September, 2003 Submitted to Journal of Reading Education "Reading Teachers and Research: Consumers to Evaluators to Producers"
- August, 2003 Submitted to Illinois Reading Council Journal "Guiding Students‟ Literature Discussions" (Resubmission; original submission, December 2002)
Professional Memberships
- International Reading Association
- Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading (Special Interest Group of IRA)
- History of Reading (Special Interest Group of IRA)
- Illinois Reading Council
- South Suburban Reading Council (Local Affiliate of IRC)
- College Instructors of Reading Professionals (Special Interest Group of IRC)
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Society for the Study of Education
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
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