Discovering Voice: Voice Lessons for Middle and High School (Maupin House)
Nancy Dean, Ed.S., is a professor emerita at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. During her 36 years in education, she has taught middle- and high-school English, special education, reading, debate, social studies, English for speakers of other languages, and Advanced Placement English. Committed to school reform and meaningful professional development, Nancy has worked extensively with teachers and school leaders in both urban and rural schools. She serves on the leadership teams of the National Literacy Project and the Florida Reading Initiative and works as a lead trainer for both of these organizations. In addition, she is a national consultant in secondary literacy and literacy leadership and director of Leadership through Reading, a cross-age tutoring program. Nancy's areas of expertise include The reading-writing connection through the teaching of voice  Content-area literacy  Working with literacy teams to build school literacy action plans  Reading instruction for struggling readers  Building a school culture of literacy  *Cross-age tutoring for enhanced literacy instruction Nancy is the author of Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone and Discovering Voice: Voice Lessons for Middle and High School; and co-author of Succeeding in Reading: A Complete Cross-Age Tutoring Program (all with Maupin House).