PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP:  BOOKS

 

“Picture Writing, Food Groups Interactive Bulletin Board, Reading Any Map, Garden Cameras, Meet a Tree, Catalog Puppets, Apartment Shopping.” In Short, Deborah J., Ed.  New Ways in   Teaching English at the Secondary Level. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1999.

 

“Menus, Shopping for Furniture, Comic Strip Sequencing, Jigsaw Puzzle Writing.”  In L. Schinke-Llano & R. Rauff (Eds.), New Ways in Teaching Young Children.  Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1996.

 

Interactive Bulletin Boards as Teaching Tools.  Washington D.C.: National Education Association, 1989.

 

PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP:  JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

“Garden Planning: Finding Meaningful Memories.” Growing Ideas. National Gardening Association’s Journal of Garden-Based Learning, (April, 1999.)

 

“Scooters and Acceleration.” Science Scope. March, 1999).

 

“Growing Our Own Outdoor Science Lab.”  Science Scope.  (March, 1997).

 

“Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers and their ESL Students.”  TESOL Matters.  June/ July 1997): 13.

 

"Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers."  Secondary Education Interest Section Newsletter of TESOL.  (1995). 

 

"Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers."  Elementary Education Interest Section Newsletter of TESOL (1995).

 

"Creative Freedom Improves Research Results." Christian Educators Journal.  (February/March, 1990).

 

"The Takeover: Making the Classroom Yours."  Christian Educators  Journal. (October-November, 1989).

 

Photo Series on Cooperative Learning.  Language Arts. (Feb 1988).

 

"Newspapers Facilitate Content Area Learning: Social Studies." (with James Wells and Sharon    Kossack).  Journal of Reading. (December 1987).

 

"Student-Centered Activities: Alternatives to Textbooks." Christian Educators Journal. (Feb-Mar 1987).

 

"Readability and the Bible: Which Version for Your Students?"  (with Dr. James Worthington.)     Christian Educators Journal.  (Dec 1985-Jan 1986).

 

"ESL in the Church."  Innovations. (Sept 1984).

 

"The Readability of Managerial Accounting Textbooks." Teaching English in the Two-Year      College. (Winter 1984).

 

"Bookmaking for Beginning ESL Students." TESOL Newsletter.  (Feb. 1984).

 

"Talking During Story-Time?  Of Course!"  The Reading Teacher. (May 1983).

 

Educational Resource Informational Clearinghouse (ERIC) Published in Full. "Fairy Tales and Fantasy:  Bridges to Literature --Using Fairy Tales and Fantasy to Motivate the Reluctant Reader."  Document ED 280 061 (1987).

 

“Best Birthday Books.”  Creating Keepsakes (June, 2001).

 

BOOK REVIEWS

[Review of  America: The Early Years; and America: After Independence.] by Chamot, Annaand  Michael O’Malley.]  TESOL Quarterly  Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 1989): 133-134.

 

[Review of Why Didn't I Think of That? by Williams and Verner.] Middle School Journal. (November, 1988).

 

[Review of Write!]   TESOL Newsletter. (Oct 1985).

 

[Review of Turning Points.] for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1988.

 

[Review of New Horizons in English. New Edition]  for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1989.

 

[Review of New Horizons in English and English for a Changing World.] for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983.

 

VIDEO

 

"Teaching the Bible to New English Speakers."  A 3-hour training video for ESL Teachers/tutors.  University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA, 1986.

 

TRAINING MANUALS/HANDBOOKS

 

Garden Science Activities.  Teacher Handbook, Grades K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8.  1993.

 

Bible Studies for New English Speakers: A Resource Book for International and Refugee Ministries.  Seattle: Brim Press, 1982, 1986.

 

"Summer Spelling Fun."  Booklets for Grades 3, 4, 5,6.  Northshore School District, 1982.

 

"A Handbook for Using the Newspaper in the Eighth Grade Classroom."  Estacado Jr. High School, Plainview TX, 1981. 

 

"What We've Learned the Hard Way: Language Development Grades 6-12" (with David Adcock.)  Region XVII Education Service Center, Lubbock, TX, 1980.

 

INTEGRATED CURRICULUM UNITS

 

Reaching for the Torch: The Growth of Women’s Rights in America, 2000.

 

It’s a Jungle…Rain Forest Alert, 2000.

 

In My Lifetime, 1999.

 

The Weather Guide. (Newspapers in Education, Dayton Daily News.) 1999.

 

Winter Olympics, 1998.

 

OTHER

 

“Organizing Classroom Activities to Meet Diverse Students’ Learning Needs.” Doctoral Dissertation, 1999.

 

“Blue Ribbon National School of Excellence” Report.  Yellow Springs High School, 1997.

“The Rating of Sixth Grade Student Writing by Four Rater Types:  Teachers, Peers,    Parents,  and Businessmen.”  Master’s Thesis, 1983.

 

Grade One Math Criterion-Referenced Test.  Northshore School District, Bothell, WA, 1982.

 

"Learning To Spell:  What Recent Research Tells Us." For district elementary school principals.         Northshore School District, Bothell, WA, 1982.

 

 

Selected Places of Educational Presentations

 

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) National Conventions in Seattle, Long Beach, Atlanta, Chicago, San Antonio, Anaheim, Houston, Baltimore.

 

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Convention

 

National Science Teachers Association Western Regional Meeting

 

Miami Valley Consortium of ESL Teachers (OH )

Science Education Council of Ohio (SECO)

Ohio SchoolNet Technology Challenge Literacy Fund Forum State Meeting (Columbus, OH)

Environmental Education Council of Ohio (EECO)

OCTELA Spring Conference (Columbus, OH)

Ohio Association for Adult and Continuing Education Annual Conference

Texas State Migrant Teachers Conference

WAESOL (Washington TESOL), Seattle WA.

Ohio TESOL

National Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference.

National Middle School Association National Conference.

Popular Culture Association National Meeting

Midwest Regional TESOL Conference

Western Regional Conference, International Reading Association

National Laubach Literacy Advance Meeting

International Reading Association Far West Region Conference

Northshore School District Reading Specialists (Bothell, WA)

Cleveland Public Schools (OH)

Indianapolis Independent School District Elementary Teachers  (IN)

Fairborn Public Schools (OH)

Billings School District (MT)

San Antonio Public Schools (TX)

Yakima Public Schools (WA)

Yellow Springs Exempted Public Schools (OH)

Estacado Jr. High School (Plainview, TX.)

Leota Junior High School (Bothell, WA)

Northshore Junior High School (Bothell, WA)

Horace Mann School/University Partnership Program Mentor Teaching Seminar at Antioch/McGregor (OH)

Northridge High School (Dayton, OH)

Association of Christian Schools International, Northwest Regional Meeting

Association of Christian Schools International Mid-  America Region Convention

Summer School Migrant Teachers (Plainview, TX)

Miami Valley Literacy Council, Dayton, OH.

Seattle Area Literacy Tutors

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base AFIT International Wives (OH)

Cedarville College (OH)

Christian School Home-Schoolers Organization (Mansfield, OH)

University Presbyterian Church (Seattle)

Lutheran Bible Institute (WA)

Seattle Pacific University

Texas Baptist International Workers Conference

Seattle Christian Elementary School,

Mercer Island Covenant Church (WA)

Send International (Farmington, MI)

Hospitality International (Dayton, OH)