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ReLeah Cossett Lent

Speaking Topics

• Literacy Learning Communities: PLC’s with a Literacy Twist
• Engagement: The Key to Learning
• Reading for Meaning in the Content-Areas
• Writing to Learn Across the Content Areas
• Engaging Adolescents “On the Edge” in Literacy
• Picture This! Increase Comprehension, Vocabulary and Background Knowledge with Picture Books in Content-Area Classes
• Student Study Groups: Collaborative Learning across the Curriculum
• Facing Challenges and Censorship: Keeping Books in the Hands of Readers
• In-depth, On-site Professional Learning with Long-range Planning

Speaker Bio

ReLeah Cossett Lent was a teacher for more than twenty years before becoming a founding member of a statewide literacy project at the University of Central Florida. She is now a consultant, writing and speaking about adolescent literacy issues. Her three most recent books include Literacy for Real: Reading, Thinking and Learning in the Content Areas (Teachers College Press), Engaging Adolescent Learners: A Guide for Content-Area Teachers (Heinemann) and Literacy Learning Communities: A Guide for Creating Sustainable Change in Secondary Schools (Heinemann).  ReLeah’s first two books, co-authored with Gloria Pipkin and published by Heinemann, At the Schoolhouse Gate: Lessons in Intellectual Freedom and Silent No More: Stories of Courage in American Schools, won  the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Award and the NCTE/Slate Intellectual Freedom Award.  ReLeah was also the recipient of the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award in 1999. Her latest project with Jimmy Santiago Baca is a new teaching resource for reaching at-risk adolescents, which includes a book and DVD titled Adolescents on the Edge, Stories and Lessons to Transform Learning.

Grades: 6 - 12