| Tina Archuleta
Currently taking a break from teaching elementary school in Chicago to get her family launched, Tina is available for IWP workshops and in-classroom support work. Tina received the Kohl-McCormick Foundation early childhood teaching award in 2003.
Linda Bailey
A former Chicago elementary teacher, writing teacher, area reading coach and recently retired program director for Changing Worlds (an educational non-profit), Linda also worked for 4 years with the Center for City Schools facilitating professional development, working with teachers in classrooms and leading the monthly Saturday mini-conferences there. She is a long-time IWP leader.
Pat Bearden
After teaching for many years in Chicago, Pat is now director of the American Family History Institute. Pat is a co-author of History Comes Home: Family Stories Across the Curriculum, and provides workshops for schools on this topic as well as on teaching writing.
Marilyn Bizar
Marilyn is a member of the Secondary Education Department, National-Louis University, and is an expert on reading and small schools. She has authored many professional texts including Methods That Matter with Harvey Daniels, and Rethinking High School with Daniels and Zemelman.
Dagny Bloland
A middle-school teacher at Whitney Young in Chicago, Dagny also leads courses in English methods and teacher action research for National-Louis University and Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. in English education from New York University and is author of Ready, Willing, and Able: Teaching English to Gifted, Talented, and Exceptionally Conscientious Adolescents.
Jan Booth
A fifth-grade teacher at Sycamore Trails School in Bartlett, Jan has led many of the workshops that have strengthened the staff throughout Elgin District U46 in teaching writing and reading. She is also an active member of Stagecoach Players theater group in DeKalb, IL.
Pat Braun
A middle-school teacher in River Forest, Pat is working on her doctorate in reading at National-Louis University. She is also secretary of the Illinois Reading Council and has led many IWP summer leadership institutes.
Kathy Daniels
After many years as a Chicago high school English teacher and IWP leader, Kathy helped to found Best Practice High School in Chicago. She served as a lead teacher at Best Practice for five years.
Barbara Dress
A retired public school teacher and expert on reading and children’s literature, Barbara teaches language arts for Roosevelt University and acts as a staff developer for many schools throughout Chicago. She is also a highly experienced IWP leader.
John Duffy
A retired English teacher who worked at Hinsdale Central High School, John now teaches part-time in the Secondary Education Department at National-Louis University and helps lead the Gear-Up program there.
Lynette Emmons
Serves as coordinator of the Center for City Schools, and has served as the technology liaison for the Illinois Writing Project. Lynette taught
middle school in Chicago for 8 years before shifting to work full
time for the Center.
Marianne Flanagan
Formerly with the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University, Marianne taught and worked as a facilitator for the School Teams Achieving Results for Students (STARS) professional development program in Chicago Public Schools before retiring after 35 years. She now leads Illinois Writing Project workshops on implementing classroom writing workshop and literature circles.
Debra Gurvitz
After teaching many years at Lyons School in Glenview, Debra is a full-time faculty member of the Reading Department at National-Louis University, where she directs the Summer Reading Clinic. She also serves as an NLU co-director of IWP. Debra’s 2004 doctoral dissertation: “Supporting Early Intervention for Students At Risk in an Affluent School District: Involving Pertinent Stakeholders in the System.”
Mary Hausner
Mary taught elementary school for 13 years and then became the coordinator of reading, language arts and foreign language for Elgin School District U46 before retiring. She is currently the Elgin site coordinator for reading recovery.
Judy Johnstone
Recently retired as chair of the English Department at Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park, Judy is a long-time IWP workshop leader. As department chair, one of Judy's accomplishments was to guide the development of an authentic, in-depth writing assessment for incoming freshmen at Sandburg.
Barbara Morris
Barbara taught elementary school in Chicago for many years. She currently works part-time conducting Illinois Writing Project workshops as well as providing staff development focusing primarily on early literacy for the Center for City Schools.
Diane Morrone
Diane is an instructional coordinator in charge of language arts for Schaumburg School District 54. She is also completing her doctorate in reading at National-Louis University.
Toni Murff
Formerly with the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University, Toni was a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teacher before retiring after 38 years. She now conducts workshops for the CPS Golden Teachers Program and works for Changing Worlds, promoting inclusive communities in schools through oral history, writing and art. With the Illinois Writing Project she leads workshops on writing instruction.
Suzy Ruder
An IWP teacher leader, Suzy has worked to inspire the most challenging students at Sandburg High School in Orland Park. She recently retired after 32 years of teaching and leading other educators in engaging at-risk students. She helped create an inclusion program, and supported the transitional program of instruction for immigrant students at Hinsdale Central High School.
Yolanda Simmons
Yolanda is an instructional support facilitator at the South Shore Small School of the Arts in Chicago. Yolanda works with her sister Pat Bearden on the American Family History Institute, and is a co-author of History Comes Home, with Bearden, Zemelman, and Pete Leki.
Katy Smith
A longtime high-school English teacher and expert in curriculum integration and interdisciplinary teaching, Katy is now the associate chair of the teacher education department at Northeastern Illinois University. She has also authored journal articles: “Becoming an ‘honors student’: The interplay of identities, literacies in an interdisciplinary classroom” and “Becoming the guide on the side.”
Nancy Steineke
Nancy teaches English at Andrew High School in Tinley Park. She authored Reading and Writing Together: Collaborative Literacy in Action and with Harvey Daniels, Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles. She recently completed the professional text Content Area Writing with co-authors Harvey Daniels and Steve Zemelman
Donna Vorreyer
Donna is a teacher at Hinsdale Middle School. She is a poet who has published her work in a number of print and online literary journals and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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