Susan Bennett-Armistead
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Susan Bennett-Armistead is associate professor emerita of literacy at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. She served for five years as the Correll Professor of Early Literacy, which included an $80,000 award for research and promotion of early literacy initiatives over five years. Bennett-Armistead’s research interests include language and literacy acquisition in young children, the role of literacy instruction in Pre-K and kindergarten settings, relationships between family literacy volunteers and their literacy learners, and longitudinal analysis of teacher induction through professional development schools. She is a member of several professional organizations including the National and Maine Association for the Education of Young Children, the Literacy Research Association, the International Literacy Association, the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators, and the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. She serves as the early literacy consultant to Raising Readers and Save the Children as well as providing support to the Barbara Bush Foundation’s Family Literacy initiatives.
Education
B.S., Michigan State University, Child Development and Elementary Education
