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Cris Tovani
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Cris Tovani taught elementary school for ten years
before becoming a high school reading specialist and
English teacher. A nationally known consultant, she
chooses to continue teaching high school students
full-time. She has also worked for many years as a staff
developer for the Denver-based Public Education and
Business Coalition (PEBC), the consortium that has
received national acclaim for its work in reading
comprehension reform. Her book "I Read It, But I
Don't Get It", and her new video series by Stenhouse,
has helped thousands of teachers nationwide improve
their instruction in reading comprehension.
Ellin Oliver Keene, author of Mossaic of Thought,
says, "Cris is a teacher of teachers as well as of kids.
Building on research that clearly defines thinking
strategies proficient readers use to comprehend, Cris
shows how she has taught kids to probe more deeply,
think more profoundly, reflect, and struggle for
insight.
Cris teachers us that kids of any age and background
who are treated with respect, trusted to be brilliant,
and shown how to be more proficient readers and writers,
will dramatically surpass our highest expectations."
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