Dr. Judith Irvin
Dr. Judith Irvin is the Executive Director of the National Literacy Project and a Professor in the College of Education at Florida State University. She has written numerous books and articles on ways to improve literacy learning for middle and high school students which include Reading and the Middle School Student: Strategies to Enhance Literacy and Reading and the High School Student: Strategies to Enhance Literacy (with Buehl and Klemp), What Adolescents Deserve: A Renewed Commitment to Independent Literacy (with Rycik), and Reading Strategies in the Social Studies Classroom. Judith is currently working on A Leadership Model for Improving Adolescent Literacy which is a school-wide reform effort funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Email: jirvin@NationalLiteracyProject.org
Presentation Topics:
Strategies to Improve Learning in the Content Areas
The Foundations of Literacy Learning for Educators of Adolescents
Vocabulary Development
Helping Students Read Difficult (and often boring) Text
What Leaders Need to Know About Improving Literacy Learning
A Leadership Model for Improving Adolescent Literacy