Sponsor: NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences
Friday, September 26, 2003, 10:30 am -11:45 am
Connie Maynor, a student in the SLIS program at NC Central University, will present her findings. She projects that reinforcing and strengthening the use of critical literary vocabulary for young adult readers can narrow the achievement gap.
Ms Maynor is a veteran educator with over 13 years of classroom teaching experience in high school English and has worked for the past 3 years with learning disabled students at C. E. Jordan High School in Durham, NC. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from UNC-CH in journalism and a teaching certificate from UNC-Pembroke. She is enrolled in the Master’s program in Library Science at NCCU. In the fall of 2003 she began a new position as Media Coordinator for Southern High School in Durham.