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Teachers of the 2008 NWP Annual Report: Felicia George
Publication: 2008 NWP Annual Report
Summary: Meet Felicia George, Lehman College, CUNY, New York City; associate director, New York City Writing Project.
Teachers use technology in their daily lives, but they haven't always figured out how to use it to help students write, revise, and learn.
NWP 2008 Annual Report
"Teachers use technology in their daily lives, but they haven't always figured out how to use it to help students write, revise, and learn," says Felicia George.
Felicia, a former Head Start teacher, has devoted her career to helping adults develop state-of-the-art literacy instruction for children in after-school programs, foster care, and other settings. Today she works with teacher-leaders in the New York City Writing Project to strengthen their skills with new digital tools so they, in turn, can support their teaching colleagues in the schools.
Felicia also chairs NWP's Technology Liaison Network, a group of leaders from all sites whose individual and collective knowledge about uses of technology affects classrooms across the nation.
"I am beginning to close the great gap between my understanding of how vital Internet technology is in today's world, and what I can actually do with that technology," says Susannah Thompson, teacher-participant.
