Biography:
Regie lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, Frank. When not working, she loves going to local farmers’ markets, making jams and fruit tarts, gardening, walking, reading fiction and nonfiction, traveling, and fussing over her two granddaughters. She is a daily devotee of the New York Times and especially savors the Sunday Book Review.
REGIE ROUTMAN is an internationally respected educator and author with more than 40 years of experience teaching, coaching, and leading in diverse schools across the United States and Canada. Her current work and focus involves weeklong school residencies where she does daily demonstration teaching in K-6 classrooms, coaches teachers and principals, and facilitates ongoing professional conversations—all with the goal of raising reading and writing achievement across the curriculum and sustaining whole school change.
Regie lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, Frank. When not working, she loves going to local farmers’ markets, making jams and fruit tarts, gardening, walking, reading fiction and nonfiction, traveling, and fussing over her two granddaughters. She is a daily devotee of the New York Times and especially savors the Sunday Book Review.
REGIE ROUTMAN is an internationally respected educator and author with more than 40 years of experience teaching, coaching, and leading in diverse schools across the United States and Canada. Her current work and focus involves weeklong school residencies where she does daily demonstration teaching in K-6 classrooms, coaches teachers and principals, and facilitates ongoing professional conversations—all with the goal of raising reading and writing achievement across the curriculum and sustaining whole school change.
Professional Development:
Regie's premier professional development resource is the video-based Regie Routman in Residence: Transforming Our Teaching series. The literacy series, on effective teaching of reading and writing in diverse classrooms, was developed for school and district leaders, coaches, and teachers seeking to increase and sustain literacy achievement schoolwide.
Regie's teaching experience includes being a classroom teacher (for most of the elementary grades), a reading specialist, a learning disabilities tutor, a Reading Recovery teacher, a language arts resource and mentor teacher, a staff developer, and a literacy coach. Her books and resources are widely acclaimed as providing a solid, research-based understanding of language learning along with a wealth of practical ideas and extensive, annotated resources. Because Regie writes in an honest, personal, and encouraging voice based on her daily experiences in classrooms, teachers and principals find her books and ideas are easy to read, understand, and apply to their own teaching, coaching, learning, and leading.
Theoretical orientation:
Regie Routman's intimate knowledge of teaching and learning, down-to-earth style, and dedication to children's success have made her one of the most vibrant and respected names in literacy education. Her books, Teaching Essentials; Writing Essentials; Reading Essentials; Conversations; Literacy at the Crossroads; Invitations; The Blue Pages; and Transitions, all published by Heinemann, have encouraged hundreds of thousands of teachers to take charge of their professional learning and create efficient, joyful practices. Currently she is dedicating herself to a new, dynamic framework to support teachers' professional development. The DVD-based Regie Routman in Residence supports in-depth, yearlong literacy staff development that replicates the demonstration teaching she conducts in weeklong residencies and brings to life the practices she advocates in Teaching Essentials.
Contributions:
Regie Routman is an internationally respected teacher and author who speaks at major educational conferences and conducts full-day workshops for educators. Her current work and focus involves weeklong school residencies where she does daily demonstration teaching in classrooms, coaches teachers, and facilitates ongoing professional conversations and whole-school change.
Regie dedicated more than forty years of teaching experience which includes being a classroom teacher (for most of the elementary grades), a reading specialist, a learning disabilities tutor, a Reading Recovery teacher, a language arts resource and mentor teacher, a staff developer, and a literacy coach.
Her books are research-based on language learning and provides an abundant instructional strategies, practical ideas, and annotated resources.
Books:
Regie Routman in Residence (Heinemann, 2008 and 2009)
Teaching Essentials: Expecting the Most and Getting the Best from Every Learner, K-8, (Heinemann, 2008)
Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well (Heinemann, 2003)
Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching (Heinemann, 2005)
Kids' Poems: Teaching Children to Love Writing Poetry (Scholastic, 2000)
Conversations: Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Evaluating (Heinemann, 2000)
Invitations: Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12 (Heinemann, 1991 and 1994)
Literacy at the Crossroads: Crucial Talk About Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmas (Heinemann, 1996)
Transitions: From Literature to Literacy (Heinemann, 1988)
More Contributions:
Regie sponsors a Teacher Recognition Grant through the International Reading Association. The award honors an outstanding elementary classroom teacher dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of reading and writing.
Regie's premier professional development resource is the video-based Regie Routman in Residence: Transforming Our Teaching series. The literacy series, on effective teaching of reading and writing in diverse classrooms, was developed for school and district leaders, coaches, and teachers seeking to increase and sustain literacy achievement schoolwide.
Regie's teaching experience includes being a classroom teacher (for most of the elementary grades), a reading specialist, a learning disabilities tutor, a Reading Recovery teacher, a language arts resource and mentor teacher, a staff developer, and a literacy coach. Her books and resources are widely acclaimed as providing a solid, research-based understanding of language learning along with a wealth of practical ideas and extensive, annotated resources. Because Regie writes in an honest, personal, and encouraging voice based on her daily experiences in classrooms, teachers and principals find her books and ideas are easy to read, understand, and apply to their own teaching, coaching, learning, and leading.
Theoretical orientation:
Regie Routman's intimate knowledge of teaching and learning, down-to-earth style, and dedication to children's success have made her one of the most vibrant and respected names in literacy education. Her books, Teaching Essentials; Writing Essentials; Reading Essentials; Conversations; Literacy at the Crossroads; Invitations; The Blue Pages; and Transitions, all published by Heinemann, have encouraged hundreds of thousands of teachers to take charge of their professional learning and create efficient, joyful practices. Currently she is dedicating herself to a new, dynamic framework to support teachers' professional development. The DVD-based Regie Routman in Residence supports in-depth, yearlong literacy staff development that replicates the demonstration teaching she conducts in weeklong residencies and brings to life the practices she advocates in Teaching Essentials.
Contributions:
Regie Routman is an internationally respected teacher and author who speaks at major educational conferences and conducts full-day workshops for educators. Her current work and focus involves weeklong school residencies where she does daily demonstration teaching in classrooms, coaches teachers, and facilitates ongoing professional conversations and whole-school change.
Regie dedicated more than forty years of teaching experience which includes being a classroom teacher (for most of the elementary grades), a reading specialist, a learning disabilities tutor, a Reading Recovery teacher, a language arts resource and mentor teacher, a staff developer, and a literacy coach.
Her books are research-based on language learning and provides an abundant instructional strategies, practical ideas, and annotated resources.
Books:
Regie Routman in Residence (Heinemann, 2008 and 2009)
Teaching Essentials: Expecting the Most and Getting the Best from Every Learner, K-8, (Heinemann, 2008)
Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well (Heinemann, 2003)
Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching (Heinemann, 2005)
Kids' Poems: Teaching Children to Love Writing Poetry (Scholastic, 2000)
Conversations: Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Evaluating (Heinemann, 2000)
Invitations: Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12 (Heinemann, 1991 and 1994)
Literacy at the Crossroads: Crucial Talk About Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmas (Heinemann, 1996)
Transitions: From Literature to Literacy (Heinemann, 1988)
More Contributions:
Regie sponsors a Teacher Recognition Grant through the International Reading Association. The award honors an outstanding elementary classroom teacher dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of reading and writing.