Dr. Kylene Beers was an
international literacy consultant and a Senior Reading
Researcher at the Comer School Development Program at Yale University. She
began her career as a middle school language arts teacher outside of Houston,
TX. She was the author or co-author of many best-selling books including When
Kids Can’t Read/What Teachers Can Do; Forged by Reading; Disrupting Thinking; Reading Nonfiction; and Notice and Note – Strategies for Close Reading. Disrupting Thinking, which she co-authored with Robert Probst,
is a 2018 recipient of the Teachers Choice Awards.
Kylene served on committees with
the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of
English and was an often-invited keynote speaker to national and state
conventions. She served as president of the National Council of Teachers of
English and as a board member for the international LitWorld
Foundation. She was a recipient of the NCTE Leadership Award and the NCTE Middle
Grades Outstanding Teacher award.
Most
importantly, Kylene was an exemplary teacher who worked in classrooms across the nation and shoulder-to-shoulder with teachers and students.
