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Terri Ruyter taught for 12 years in independent schools in New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She spent the last four years as a literacy specialist working with urban elementary and middle schools in New York City’s Region 9. Terri believes that powerful learning experiences that inspire students to learn and excel can be designed by integrating content, skills, and the arts. The curriculum development work she is part of in NYC public schools focuses on aligning instruction to state standards, assessing learners and planning curriculum and instruction based on these assessments. A current focus of her work is on integrating literacy and the teaching of history without sacrificing the disciplinary integrity of either subject.
She has presented workshops and has worked with teachers and coaches in classrooms these include new teacher and new coach workshops, designing curricula using the Understanding by Design model, assessing readers through conferring, matching students to texts, writing workshop, preparing students for standardized testing through authentic reading and writing curricula, using notebooks in the content areas, and teaching history in the elementary school.
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