2011 National Reading Recovery &
K-6 Classroom Literacy Conference
February
5-8 ●
Columbus, Ohio
Featured Speaker
Biographies
Mary
Fried
Mary Fried is an author and a trainer of teacher leaders in the
Reading Recovery Center at The Ohio State University. She was trained
by Marie Clay and Barbara Watson during the original 1984-1985 pilot
study of Reading Recovery in the USA and has been actively engaged
teaching, presenting, conducting research, and writing about Reading
Recovery for over twenty-five years. Mary is also a trainer for
Literacy Collaborative and the Principal’s Academy for Leadership. She
served as the editor and an author of children’s stories for the “Keep
Book Program” at Ohio State. In recent years Mary and her colleagues
at Ohio State have focused efforts and research on ‘Vintage’ sites in
Ohio, teaching Literacy Lessons to Intervention Specialists and
working with students and teachers in ESL programs.

Emily Rodgers
Emily Rodgers is an associate professor and a Reading Recovery trainer
in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State
University. She has worked in schools as a reading specialist and
special education teacher. Her research focuses on the professional
development of teachers and scaffolding literacy learning particularly
for young children having great difficulty learning to read and write.

Mary Rosser
Mary Rosser is formerly the state trainer for Reading Recovery in
Queensland and lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies
in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Queensland (Australia). She is now the Reading Recovery trainer at the
University of Maine. Mary's particular areas of expertise are in
language education and curriculum development. She has worked at
primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education and has extensive
international experience as a literacy consultant around the world.
Mary's research interests include the development of culturally
responsive reading materials for use in indigenous contexts.
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