Reading the Write Way: Learning Synergy in Grade K-6

Bevin O’Brien is a second grade teacher with Stillwater Area Public Schools at Marine Elementary School in Marine-on-St. Croix.  Bevin has taught for 15 years in grades K-3.  She currently teaches second grade and oversees the library at Marine Elementary.  She has her M.A. in Children's Literature from the University of Minnesota.  She previously worked with the Minnesota Humanities Center developing and co-facilitating the professional development workshop titled Teaching Content Using Children’s Literature.

Sarah Hansen is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her work focuses on the educational experiences of immigrant students and families. Sarah has taught grades K, 1, and 3 in public schools and English as a Foreign Language abroad.

Rebecca Rapport Ph.D., is a lecturer at the University of Minnesota in the Curriculum and Instruction department. Her first teaching assignment was in Ohio at the girls reformatory school in Scioto Village. Since then she has served as the president for Kerlan Friends and served on the editorial advisory board for The Five Owls. For over 25 years she has enjoyed reviewing children’s and adolescent literature for the Curriculum and Instruction publication New Books for Young Readers and currently serves as editor. In the past she has developed and facilitated other Minnesota Humanities Center professional development workshops and edited the Minnesota Storytime guides.  For her full bio please click here: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/Faculty/Rapport.html