 Donna Maxim has
taught third and/or fourth grade for 33 years.
For the past four years she has taught a 3/4 looping class at Boothbay Region Elementary
School. Prior to this she taught a 3/4 combination
for twelve years at The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 demonstration school
in Edgecomb, Maine, directed by Nancie Atwell.
She has presented workshops throughout the United States on reading and writing workshop and reading and
writing across the curriculum. She ha sauthored
two chapters in a collection of teacher stories in Coming to Know and co-edited
School Talk, an NCTE periodical. Donna received her bachelor of science from
The University of Maine at Portland-Gorham.
A lifelong learner, she has been attending and present-ing at
conferences and workshops ever since. Donna has worked for Dr. Janet Allen's
It's Never too Late Literacy Institutes for the past five years. Currently she has spent five years on the Maine
Student Book Award committee and two years as president of Maine Reading
Association. She has also served as
president of the New England Reading Association and served four years on the
Elementary Section of National Council of Teachers of English. She has been awarded The IRA Literacy Award
for Maine, NERA's Special Recognition Award for Maine and MCELA's Outstanding Achievement Award.
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