Karen Caine is a Literacy Consultant who works with teachers and administrators around the country. Her work focuses on helping teachers understand and apply Reading and Writing Workshop in their classrooms and administrators to support and extend this work. Believing that teachers learn not only by hearing, but by seeing and doing, Karen's workshops often include demonstration lessons and guide participants through the conferring process. Karen specializes in "breaking things down" to provide teachers with practical information and techniques that can be applied in their classrooms.

Karen was an award-winning classroom teacher in New York City for more than ten years before becoming a school-based staff developer. She later served as Director of Curriculum for a prestigious private school in Atlanta, supervising teachers and revamping existing curriculum and instructional practices.

Karen has taught at many reading and writing institutes including Summer Institutes at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.

Staff Development Workshops, Inc.
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