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Emily Morrison
01-22-07 09:47 |
Hi, again, Dr. Allen:
I wrote to congratulate you on your story "Best Little Wingman," some time ago and today saw you in "Scholastic Administrator."
I am from Presque Isle, mother of Stephen Morrison, your student of yore, plus perhaps most of my other children.
You are going great guns... I am as well, still working in the school library in Biddeford.
Best, Emily |
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Angela
01-08-07 11:31 |
I was at the talk you gave in Brandon, Florida in December. Janet had mentioned putting the overheads on-line so we wouldn't have to hand copy them. Will that be done soon? Thanks again for a wonderful day of workshops!
Response: Hello, Angela. We've added the links to the Brandon handouts to the home page. Thank you! |
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Susie Loyd
10-12-06 09:54 |
I enjoyed your breakout session at the Arkansas conference. I thought the list of your content area books you used would be on the handouts. I can't find them. Do you have them listed somewhere? |
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Anthony Vicari
06-27-06 10:37 |
Greetings from the land of abundant sunshine and dry heat: Vegas, Nevada. I had the wonderful opportunity of working with Janet Allen in Mobile, Alabama, this past summer (June 2006). Talk about walking with "giants" in the field of literacy...wow! As a new facilitator with Dr. Allen's Reading for Life Institute, I learned so much from Janet and the other presenters. It was simply a joy working and learning along with everybody at the conference. Here's to another successful year of learning, sharing, and working together for our common goal: Literacy Education for every student, K-12! |
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Julie Piccirilli
06-22-06 08:20 |
Janet, It was a pleasure meeting and learning from you at the Reading for Life conference here at BRHS(Bradenton FL). Buz around the county is that it has been one of the best trainings yet-I just can't wait to see teachers taking back the materials and strategies to their own classrooms! Thank you and your facilitator leaders for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Knowledge is our treasure and I can't wait to apply the strategies myself!
Julie Piccirilli |
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Michael Martin
05-23-06 18:55 |
Dr Allen, I really got a lot out of your presentation for SCDJJ. I have been using many of the strategies previously such as read alouds-shared reading and graphic organizers. I believe the word storming and activites for vocabulary will help advance my at risk students and prepare them to re enter their community school with better tools to read and understand content specific information. Again, Thanks for coming to SC. |
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Sharon Sliester
05-11-06 06:44 |
Thank you so much for believing in teachers and our ability to make a difference. I have all your books, except the two newer ones, but I will order those today. Your "Read Aloud Anthology" is perfect for my substitute teaching as a retired teacher. You energize my very soul and encourage me to be proud of my chosen profession once again |
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Vivica Floyd
10-14-05 05:36 |
Dear Janet,
Hi! I teach English I to 8th graders in Gilbert, SC. I attended your workshop last year and received the English I notebook with the wonderful helpful collections you made. I teach GREAT EXPECTATIONS in this unit. Is there a book or selection you can think of that would be a good read aloud for this novel? I looked through what we talked about in the workshop and I have looked through the novels and works I have, but I thought maybe you might have a suggestion. I just want to say last year's workshop was the first time I was able to see you in person and hear you speak. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found you to be a woman after my own heart concerning books and a love for reading.
Thanks,
Vivica Floyd |
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Ronda S. Reed, M.ed.
10-07-05 14:51 |
I enjoyed your presentation in Tuscon, AZ on 10/1. Looking forward to using my new "pearls of reading wisdom" in my classroom at Salt River High School!
Thank you, Janet! |
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Angie Graves
07-22-05 11:46 |
Dear Janet, Florence Z. from Pieces of Eight in Presque Isle said I should get in touch with you about info for publishing a children's book. I'm doing this for an elderly friend who, I think, has a real cute story about a Maine coon cat. Flo didn't have your email. Could you please contact me, I would be most appreciative of any help you can provide, if you have the time of course. Thanks so much, Angie |
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Jessica Schenkel
06-01-05 07:40 |
Hello, Janet!
I have had the sincere pleasure of attending two of your workshops held here in Mobile. I am such a believer in your porgram and ideas. I thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of graphic organizers!
I wish you the absolute best in the future! Keep up the good work!
Jessica |
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Amber Toth
02-04-05 16:02 |
I would love to attend a workshop. I checked the calender but I didn't see any dates in Kansas or Oklahoma. Will you ever be coming this way. |
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Robert Griffin
01-21-05 06:07 |
I attended your presentation in Mobile, AL, yesterday, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks for the terrific ideas (not to mention the much-needed encouragement you gave us). |
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Raechel Grabarz
11-11-04 10:16 |
Thank you for the information you shared with me at the workshop in Hamden, CT. It was motivating to hear about instruction specifically for middle school age students. I am working on using Social Studies as a reading base rather than a separate content area. If you can suggest anything, I'd appreciate the advice. Thanks again! Raechel |
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Kathryn Ransom
10-19-04 19:44 |
Oct 18, 2004 - Just rereading my notes from May, 2004 IRA session and thought of you. Will share with a group of sixth grade teachers tomorrow your idea of how to introduce several books swiftly to a middle group of learners. I have a bag packed with books of various reading levels and copyright dates and will see how the idea works with adults. Know if you suggested the idea, it should work well if I remember your description correctly. Hope I was competent at note taking in May.
Have a good year, Janet |
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Karyn Niles
10-05-04 13:19 |
Hi Janet!
Hope you made it home after the institute in Fairfax this summer. Teachers are still raving about it. I of course am wondering how you made it home. The weather was not pretty. Thanks again! |
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Melissa Jay
07-09-04 15:37 |
Hi Janet, I am writing to inquire about what resources you might have to reinforce reading skills in my math classes. My dear friend Elaine Coulson had the opportunity to attend your literacy institute in Tampa, Florida and has talked about nothing else since. And that was over a year ago! :-) I am very interested to find out what a math teacher can do to aid in improving the reading skills of my math students while faced with the abundant curriculum requirements. Thank you for any advice you can give.
Regards, Melissa Jay |
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Melissa Dembele
07-01-04 13:47 |
I just finished your Literacy Institute in Virginia. I'm thrilled by all the ideas and teaching tools that I have walked away with, and I'm looking forward to sharing what I've learned with my colleagues in the fall. THANK YOU! |
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Kim Buck
06-12-04 20:45 |
Dr. Allen,
I just finished a four day conference in Kansas City (Overland Park). It was the best learning experience that I have attended (even method classes). I gained so much information that I will be processing it for weeks. Your staff was wonderful and extremely friendly.
Thank you for coming to Kansas City and I hope you feel better soon.
Kim Buck
Argentine Middle School
KCK USD 500 |
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Denise Adams
06-03-04 15:26 |
Janet, The literacy conferences you delivered at Clay High School last summer and this summer have been the most helpful I have experienced in all my 28 years. Thank you. My assistant principal and I are excited about 2005 already thanks to you. I will look forward to seeing you in the fall. |
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Joel Geary
04-28-04 08:46 |
Hi Janet, I'm still directing those Governor's Institutes in Pennsylvania, and today I have a new question. Is your new book, "Tools for Teaching Content Literacy", more suitable for middle school teachers or high school teachers? I'd like to provide a resource book for middle school teachers. Thanks-- I hope you are having a wonderful spring!
Joel |
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Wendy
03-24-04 18:19 |
Your presentation in Ann Arbor was hilarious, inspiring, and...practical! I will be using many of your materials with my students. I look forward to learning more from you through your books and hope that you will come back to Michigan very soon. I would love to take classes and absorb as much of your expertise as I can. Thank you for sharing your wealth of experience and your extraordinary bibliography of books that kids (and adults) can't help but love. I can't wait to get back to my students! |
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Darla Craig
03-15-04 11:44 |
My dear cousin;
Reading what I see in this web site makes me so proud of you and proud to be in your family. You are an inspiration to all of us and now I know that reading truly runs in our genes. Keep up the good work and I look forward to hearing you speak on Friday March 19th. |
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Leslie Brooks
02-09-04 07:08 |
Hi, Janet. I enjoyed your Yellow Brick Roads presentation at NMSA Feb. 8 in Chicago. I understood you to say that you had your booklists available on this websire, but I cannot find them. Did I misunderstand, or am I looking in the wrong place? |
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Kimberly Hockersmith
01-27-04 15:37 |
I also want to thank you for an incredible week in Green Cove Springs, FL. I love everything you said! I have been re-inspired! I struggle to come up with new ideas to encourage my very unmotivated ESE students. So many of them hate the idea of reading a sentence, let alone a book! I remember one of my professors in college reading to us at the beginning of each class, in order to show us the importance of doing so in the classroom. I used this strategy in block classes, but I left it to the wayside when I was given 50 minute classes. Thanks to you, I have realized how much I miss this and will try to incorporate it again- somehow. I am always looking for ways to inspire my students to love reading as much as I do, and you have helped me find some ways to do it! Thank you for what you do and keep inspiring other teachers like me! You're awesome and one of the best I've met! I hope see you at future conferences. |
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Wendy Laskey
01-02-04 12:19 |
Dear Dr. Allen,
It was wonderful seeing you in Columbus, Ohio before the holidays! I took home with me so many great insights that you shared. Thank you for giving all who attended a candid and true look at middle school language arts. Your approach to teaching motivated me to keep trying new things in the classroom. For those who have not seen you in person, they are missing one of the BEST speakers in education today, hands down!
Sincerely,
Wendy Laskey, Springfield, Ohio |
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Thad Lacasse
11-15-03 13:20 |
Hi Janet! I just attened a day long workshop with you. I teach 5th grade in Clinton, ME. I always leave knowing why I teach after your workshops. Keep up the good work...You are a true Mainer! Thank you! |
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Tracy
10-20-03 10:38 |
Dr. Allen. You're awesome!! I attended your training in Maui this summer. Although I first I felt extremely overwhelmed, after I went through Yellow Brick Roads I became more confident in my abilities to help my students. Although I still have a long way to go, I am so glad I have your books to guide me. |
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Marjorie Rickare
10-16-03 17:06 |
Dr. Allen, I am working on a doctoral degree in Instructional Technology and Distance Education. I am presently reseaching the use of technology to improve reading skills. I would be very interested in finding out more about Read 180 as the school that I am presently employeed in now implementing it. Do you know of any journal articles which report on read 180? Thank you for your help, Marjorie |
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Theresa Fletcher
10-04-03 15:13 |
Janet,
It was terrific to hear you speak today in El Paso. I started reading your latest book, Yellow Brick Roads, and your lecture was inspiring. Thank you for your work with students and putting your knowledge out there for others to do a better job at teaching. Keep up your good work!
Theresa Fletcher |
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