The University Training Center (UTC) for Reading Recovery® and Maine Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy (MPCL) has finalized its professional development series for the 2020-21 school year. Ongoing professional development is key to the comprehensive literacy model that schools and districts across Maine have implemented with the help of the UTC. The model provides for continuous […]
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The Portland Press Herald, the Penobscot Bay Pilot, the VillageSoup and the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel reported on the finalists for 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year, including two University of Maine alumnae.
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Cindy Soule, a fourth-grade teacher at Portland’s Gerald A. Talbot Community School, and Heather Webster, an English teacher at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro, are two of the three finalists for 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year.
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The 2020 Correll Book Awards for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text have been announced by the Lifespan Literacy Community, part of the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development and the Lifespan Literacy Community are excited to announce details of the 2020 Maine Literacy Connections Conference, which will be held April 2 at Thomas College in Waterville.
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When he came to Maine in 2015, Ming-Tso Chien was a Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant in the University of Maine Department of Modern Languages and Classics, where he taught classes in Mandarin Chinese.
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The University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Comprehensive Literacy supports schools in systemic implementation of effective literacy instruction and intervention for children in Maine schools through high quality professional development for teachers.
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Preservice teacher candidates from the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development will put some of what they are learning in their literacy methods courses into practice 5–6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 at literacy night at Old Town Elementary School.
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When Stephanie Mulligan was a sophomore at University of Maine, she started writing a poem about her experience working on the Lucky Catch, a lobster fishing tour boat out of Casco Bay.
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Lori Taylor, a Reading Recovery trainer with the College of Education and Human Development’s University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Comprehensive Literacy, has been elected to a seat on the Reading Recovery Council of North America (RRCNA) Board of Directors.
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