About the Author
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Ellin Oliver Keene has been a classroom teacher, staff developer,
non-profit director, and adjunct professor of reading and
writing. For sixteen years she directed staff development
initiatives at the Denver-based Public Education & Business
Coalition. She served as Deputy Director and Director of Literacy
and Staff Development for the Cornerstone Project at the
University of Pennsylvania for four years. Ellin works with
schools and districts throughout the country and abroad with an
emphasis on long-term, school-based professional development and
strategic planning for literacy learning. She serves as senior
advisor at Heinemann, overseeing the Heinemann Fellows initiative
and is the editor of the Heinemann Professional Development
Catalog-Journal. Ellin is author of Engaging Children: Igniting a
Drive for Deeper Learning (2018), is co-editor and co-author of
The Teacher You Want to Be: Essays about Children, Learning, and
Teaching (Heinemann, 2015); co-editor of the Not This, but That
series (Heinemann, 2013 - 2015); author of Talk About
Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Understanding
(Heinemann, 2012), To Understand: New Horizons in Reading
Comprehension (Heinemann, 2008), co-author of Comprehension Going
Forward (Heinemann, 2011), Mosaic of Thought: The Power of
Comprehension Strategy Instruction, 2nd edition (Heinemann, 2007,
1st edition, 1997) and author of Assessing Comprehension Thinking
Strategies (Shell Educational Books, 2006) as well as numerous
chapters for professional books and journals on the teaching of
reading as well as education policy journals. Ellin is a
Heinemann PD provider, presenting One-Day Workshops, Webinars
Series, and all forms of On-Site PD. She is most sought after for
her long-term professional development residencies in partnership
with Heinemann Professional Development. Click here for an
overview of the Keene Residency. Listen to Ellin and Tom Newkirk
reflect on the 20th anniversary of Mosaic of Thought on The
Heinemann Podcast. Follow Ellin on Twitter @EllinKeene.
An internationally-known speaker, workshop leader, and
consultant, Susan Zimmermann is coauthor of educational
bestsellers Mosaic of Thought (1997 and 2007 2nd edition), 7 Keys
to Comprehension, and Comprehension Going Forward (2011), books
that are changing the way reading is taught in classrooms
throughout America. She cofounded and served as the Executive
Director of the Denver-based Public Education and Business
Coalition, an organization that has spearheaded ground-breaking
comprehension work. During her time there, she initiated numerous
programs to improve the quality of public schools, including the
Reading Project, which provides many of the examples in Mosaic of
Thought and 7 Keys. Susan is also the author of Keeping
Katherine; Writing to Heal the Soul, winner of the Colorado Book
Award; and Grief Dancers, finalist for the Colorado Book Award
and winner of the Exceptional Parent symbol of excellence for its
"profound contribution to human understanding and dignity." These
wise and inspiring books grew out of Susan's personal experience
raising her profoundly handicapped daughter Katherine who had
Rett syndrome. Currently a full-time speaker, writer, and
education consultant, Susan has given hundreds of workshops,
keynotes, and summer institutes in nearly every state and
throughout Canada. She has worked with international schools in
Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Japan, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Visit her Heinemann Speakers page for more information. A lover
of the wilderness and believer in the transformative power of the
outdoors, she has been a trustee of the Colorado Outward Bound
School and served as the board chair of The Women's Wilderness
Institute, an organization that provides wilderness learning
experiences for adolescent girls and women. Susan is a graduate
of Yale Law School and mother of four. She lives in the foothills
west of Denver. For more information on Susan Zimmermann visit
her Web site at www.susanzimmermann.com.
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