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Nancy Dean, Ed.S., is a professor
emerita at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. During her
36 years in education, she has taught middle- and
high-school English, special education, reading, debate,
social studies, English for speakers of other languages,
and Advanced Placement English.
Committed to school reform and
meaningful professional development, Nancy has worked
extensively with teachers and school leaders in both urban
and rural schools. She serves on the leadership teams of
the National Literacy Project and the Florida Reading
Initiative and works as a lead trainer for both of these
organizations. In addition, she is a national consultant
in secondary literacy and literacy leadership and director
of Leadership through Reading, a cross-age tutoring
program.
Nancy’s areas of expertise include
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The reading-writing connection
through the teaching of voice
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Content-area literacy
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Working with literacy teams to
build school literacy action plans
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Reading instruction for struggling
readers
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Building a school culture of
literacy
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Cross-age tutoring for enhanced
literacy instruction
Nancy is the author of
Voice Lessons: Classroom
Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and
Tone and
Discovering Voice: Voice
Lessons for Middle and High School; and
co-author of
Succeeding in Reading:
A Complete Cross-Age Tutoring Program
(all with Maupin House).
Contact Nancy at
ndean@NationalLiteracyProject.org or through Maupin
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