Lee Ann Spillane

Orlando

United States

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Orange County
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http://portable-teacher.blogspot.com
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http://www.laspillane.org
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About Me
Formerly a Reading Writing Center teacher-coordinator, I now teach the AVID elective at Cypress Creek High School. To this position, I bring my experience in the Reading Writing Center where one side of the center was a classroom demonstration space where I offer content-based and sometimes technology-rich literacy lessons to teachers from across campus and the other side of the center was a literacy help center run by and for students. The AVID elective supports AVID students in all of their content classes. I am also a literacy consultant for Dr. Janet Allen's Literacy Leadership Collaborative. I have presented on literacy topics (reading, writing, data driven instruction and more) to teachers and districts nationally for the more than a decade. As a curriculum writer and project leader for Plugged-In to Reading and Plugged-In to Nonfiction, our latest reading kit, Plugged-In to Nonfiction for high school students was recently published by Recorded Books. Lastly, I enjoy writing as well and currently write for Stenhouse Publisher's Newslinks e-newlsetter .

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  • Jack

    Awesome!!! Thank you!
  • Jack

    Hi Lee Ann. I was wondering if your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
  • Jack

    Hey Lee Ann,

    Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

    That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

    Do you mind passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?

    Thanks,
    Jack