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Mara Lansky brings close to 20 years of teaching experience to her work as a literacy consultant. This is her fourth year working as a Staff Developer and Literacy Consultant with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project of Columbia University, under the direction of Lucy Calkins. Prior to working at the Reading Writing Project, and after earning her Administration degree in 2002, Mara was asked to join former District 15, Brooklyn as a Staff Developer. Mara taught primarily at P.S.116 Manhattan in grades K, 1, 2 and 3. While teaching, her classroom was often the lab-site for Staff Developers and a model classroom for visitors from around the nation.
Mara started her consulting work through the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Learning, writing and speaking on Accountable Talk practices in the classroom. She was a member of numerous Teachers College Leadership groups and has presented information from them. She has been invited to speak at the Brown University Teacher Leadership Consortium as well as at the NCTE Convention. Mara spends much time in the summers conducting Reading and Writing Institutes for teachers around the nation and Canada. She has taught beginning, intermediate and advanced sections in these institutes.
Currently, Mara resides in the Washington, DC area and is supporting the work of the Teachers Institute program in the DC schools. Mara has a special love for children’s literature and strives to bring this passion to teachers and students in order to enhance their literacy work. As a writer, she is currently working on a picture book, an early level series, a poetry collection and a book on teaching craft to younger writers.
Possible Professional Development Topics:
- Writing Workshop
- Reading Workshop
- Balanced Literacy across the day/week/year
- Conferring with readers and writers
- Using quality literature to support literacy work
- Building quality talk in the classroom (and beyond)
- Genre studies: Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Narrative, Craft
- Planning Writing and Reading Units and yearlong curriculum mapping
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