As
director of the Adolescent Literacy Project at the LAB at Brown University, Dr. Meltzer developed the Adolescent Literacy Support Framework and authored Adolescent Literacy Resources: Linking Research and Practice (2002) and other research - based resources for professional development and technical assistance.
On Wednesday, April 9, the forum,
Adolescent Literacy: Translating Research into Effective Policy and Practice, brought together Ardice Hartry, senior research associate for MPR Associates; Timothy Shanahan, director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor Catherine Snow to discuss the problems of adolescent readers and what can be done to improve adolescent litera
Adolescent Literacy: Translating Research into Effective Policy and Practice, brought together Ardice Hartry, senior research associate for MPR Associates; Timothy Shanahan, director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor Catherine Snow to discuss the problems of adolescent readers and what can be done to improve adolescent literacy
Literacy: Translating Research into Effective Policy and Practice, brought together Ardice Hartry, senior research associate for MPR Associates; Timothy Shanahan,
director of the Center for
Literacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor Catherine Snow to discuss the problems of adolescent readers and what can be done to improve adolescent literacy
Literacy at the University
of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor Catherine Snow to discuss the problems
of adolescent readers and what can be done to improve adolescent litera
adolescent readers and what can be done to improve
adolescent litera
adolescent literacyliteracy skills.
My history
of community volunteer work includes positions on the Board
of Directors of the Roberts / Smart Centre (a residential treatment centre for
adolescents with mental disorders), the Credit Counselling Service
of Ottawa, the Coalition for Access to Student Support Services (CATSS), the Brain Injury Association (Ottawa Valley) and the Peter Gzowski Golf Tournament for
Literacy in Ottawa.