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Vita

Marie Carducci Bolchazy, Ed.D.

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EDUCATION

Ed. D., State University of New York at Albany, 1979
     (Degree in field of reading education)
     Dissertation on teacher expectations.

Special Project: Worked with New York State Right-to-Read Team.

M. Ed., Cornell University, 1964
     Thesis on programmed instruction.

Special Projects: Tested children on critical thinking; Did informal research on curriculum guides.

B.S., State University College at New Paltz, New York, 1959

EXPERIENCE

Vice-President
     Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 1993-present
     Wauconda IL
     (publisher of Latin and Greek textbooks)

Joined firm full-time after taking early retirement. Worked on development of (1) contracts with authors and co-publishers, (2) marketing plans for specific products. Recruited and developed contracts for sales representatives. Planned and negotiated new teaching materials and books with authors. Initiated new promotions. Worked on investments and financing of new products.

Member of the Illinois Ethnic Affairs Advisory Council
     2000-present

Accepted an invitation to serve on Lieutenant Governor Corinne Woods' newly- formed Ethnic Affairs Advisory Council. She along with other representatives from ethnic and minority groups across Illinois met on April 18, 2000 for the inaugural session. The Council's first task is to create a list of issues that most concern ethnic and minority residents in Illinois. The Council will prioritize these concerns and assist Lt. Gov. Wood increating an action agenda to address these issues.

Reading/Language Arts, Coordinator K-12
     Unit District 220, 1986-1993
     Barrington IL 60010

Headed reading, language arts, and K-12 learner outcome committees; advised all disciplines on learner outcomes; taught in-district graduate courses; developed plans for assessment mandates; developed district writing assessments; developed and implemented plans for reading programs at the secondary level; directed curriculum projects; served as I.G.A.P. coordinator; worked on school improvement planning.

Language Arts, Consultant K-12
     Unit District 203, 1978-1986
     Naperville IL

Headed reading committee; supervised work of reading specialists; conducted inservice programs; headed social studies committee; served as district administrator for Chicago Area Writing Project; directed district testing program; directed Chapter 1 program; supervised curriculum research; directed E.S.L. program.

Adjunct Associate, Professor
     National Louis University, 1981-present
     Evanston IL

Reading Consultant
     Elementary District 147 (IL), 1976-1978

Wrote government proposals; supervised cross-age tutoring and reading in the content area projects; ran teacher in-service workshops; headed reading committee.

Teaching-Fellow
     State University of NY/Albany, 1974-1975

Taught corrective reading and foundations of reading; taught in reading clinic for students with severe reading disability.

Reading Consultant, (middle school)
     Cohoes School District, 1971-1974
     (NY)

Reading Coordinator, (elementary schools)
     Averill Park School District, 1968-1971
     (NY)

Elementary Teacher
     Watervliet School District (NY), 1967-1968

Adult Education Teacher, (reading & mathematics)
     Albany School District, 1966-1967
     (NY)

Associate Editor, Reading Department
     Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964-1966
     New York, NY.

Supervisor of Testing
     Basic Systems (NY), 1963-1964
     (Publishing company bought out by Xerox)

Did much of the designing, writing, and administering of programmed reading and mathematics materials. Did validation testing of psychology program. Supervised data analysis on spelling (for Bureau of Curriculum Research). Edited measurements programs.

Elementary Teacher
     Rye Neck School District (NY), 1959-1962

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

1. Papers
2. "Enriching Meaning Vocabulary through the Diversity of Children's Backgrounds and Interests." International Reading Association, San Antonio, April, 1993.
3. "Teacher-Perceived Needs for Implementing Changes in Reading Instruction/Reading Professors Can Help." International Reading Association, San Antonio, April, 1993.
4. "Locally Developed High School Writing Assessment." National Council of Teachers of English, November, 1992.
5. "Interviewing Elementary and Middle School Students on Reading Attitude." International Reading Association, May, 1991.
6. "Peer Voices - Students Writing for Students." Day-long workshop presented at the National Council of Teachers of English, November, 1991.
7. "School/University Collaboration - A Local School District Offers Graduate Reading Courses Custom-Designed for Its Staff." International Reading Association, May 1990.
8. "How Students Revise when They Process a Composition Assignment; A Controlled Study." National Council of Teachers of English, Houston, March, 1985.
9. "Creating the Effective Teacher of Reading." International Reading Association, New Orleans, May, 1985.
10. "The Relationship between Indirectness in Teaching and Two Measures of Teacher Expectancy." National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas, Dec., 1979.
11. "Difference in Content and Mode of Instruction among Reading Groups." National Reading Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, Dec., 1978.
12. "Evidence for the Validity of Certain Word Attack Skills in the Wisconsin Design." Northeastern Educational Research Conference, Ellenville, NY., Oct. 1975.
13. "How Necessary Are Certain Skills for Reading Competence?" National Reading Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, Dec., 1975.

1. Articles
2. "School/University Collaboration - A Local School District Offers Graduate Reading Courses Custom-Designed for Its Staff," Professors of Reading Education, Spring, 1991.
3. "A Survey of the Use of Reading Readiness Tests." Reading Horizons, Spring 1978.
4. "A Survey of Reading Readiness Practices." Reading Horizons, Summer 1978.
5. "False Prerequisites in Learning to Read." Reading Horizons, Summer 1978.
6. (The three Reading Horizons articles have been reprinted in the book READING HORIZONS: SELECTED READINGS, published in 1979.)

1. Books
2. Peer Voices, Levels 3, 4, 5, North Billerica, MA: Curriculum Associates, 1992.
3. Active Voices I (book on children's compositions) co-authored with James Moffett Montclair, NJ: Boynton-Cook Pub., 1987.

1. Other Publications
2. Consultant for Writing and Thinking, Boston: Mastery Education Corp., 1985.
3. Consultant for Working Words in Spelling, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1985.

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