K-2 Trail Guide - The Reading & Writing Project

Kate Roberts is a middle school staff developer and screen writer. Kate is writing a book on ways teachers can use theirown writing as a teaching tool.Alexandra Roman is a member of an action research team that develops best practices for English Language Learners.Alexandra’s focus is on raising student achievement for English Language Learners. She was a dual language teacher at PS 24before becoming an upper grade staff developer.Rachel Rothman taught primary grades and supported literacy work in California prior to joining the Project as a full-timestaff developer. She currently co-facilitates a leadership group on small group work in the reading and writing workshop andmeeting the needs of all learners.Shanna Schwartz, a staff developer, works with leadership groups and conducts think-tanks. She is author of Making YourTeaching Stick. Shanna will be leading a specialty course on “Information Writing Across the Year.”Jen Serravallo is a K-8 staff developer. She is the author of popular Heinemann title Teaching Reading in Small Groups:Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers and co-author of Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Student'sGrowth and Independence. She is currently working on a reading assessment resource with Scholastic, and a book aboutanalyzing reading data with Heinemann. Jen will be leading the specialty course "Delving into Data: Making Sense andTeaching Decisions from All the Stuff You Collect."Janet Steinberg was a literacy coach in the Bronx before joining the RWP as a staff developer. She has special expertise instandards and analyzing student achievement data. Janet supports schools in New York City as well as Chattanooga,Tennessee.Anne Taranto taught in Honolulu and was a fourth grade teacher at PS 8 in Brooklyn before joining the Project as a staffdeveloper. Annie provides supports to schools in New York City as well as Florida.Kathleen Tolan is Senior Deputy Director at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. In this role, she mentorsteacher leaders, school administrators, and staff developers with special emphasis on upper grade reading. She also overseesthe RWP's summer institutes. Everywhere she works, Kathleen provides the kind of outstanding staff development thatcreates demonstration sites. Kathleen is co-author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading: A Curriculum for the Reading Workshop,Grades 3-5. This year, she will lead a course on “Reading and Writing Nonfiction to Learn across the Year and Across theCurriculum.”20