SchoolwideBlog is proud to announce that the celebrated speaker, author, consultant, and Regents Professor Yetta Goodman will be participating on the SchoolwideBlog for the next few months.

Please look for a post tomorrow and, for those of our readers in the Tri-State area this weekend:

Yetta Goodman will be speaking at Dr Michael Shaw’s Literacy Extravaganza

Saturday, Oct. 17 at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, NY...approximately 1/2 hour from the George Washington Bridge

Yetta M. Goodman is Regents Professor of Education at the University of Arizona. She consults with education departments and speaks at conferences throughout the United States and in many nations of the world regarding issues of language, teaching and learning with implications for language arts curricula. In addition to her research in early literacy, miscue analysis and in exploring reading and writing processes, she has popularized the term kidwatching encouraging teachers to be professional observers of the language and learning development of their students. She is a major spokesperson for whole language and in her extensive writing shows concern for educational issues and research with a focus on classrooms, students and teachers.

For more on Yetta’s Books and Publications click here: