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GSE Profiles
 | Carol A. Tateishi
Director
Bay Area Writing Project
Office: 2195 Hearst Ave. EXT 1040
Phone: 510-642-0889
Email: tateish@berkeley.edu
Website: www.bayareawritingproject.org | Staff Contact: Paul Cunningham
Office: 2195 Hearst Ave. EXT 1040
Phone: 510-642-0971
Email: paulc@berkeley.edu
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arol Tateishi is the director of the Bay Area Writing Project, a UC Berkeley program dedicated to improving the teaching of writing in Bay Area schools, kindergarten through college, and enhancing the role of successful classroom teachers. She oversees close to 70 programs for 2,000 teachers each year, and summer writing programs for 400 students. She is interested in writing pedagogy, teacher development, teacher research, and the design of professional development programs and their impact on student learning. She co-coordinates a national initiative aimed at building teacher leadership for inquiry and equity involving five major urban areas. She serves on the National Writing Project Task Force, the Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools Honorary Board, and the Advisory Board to the Practitioners Inquiry Series of Teachers College Press. In collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA, Cal Tech, and the Space Science Laboratory on campus, she is co-coordinated the development of NASA's first teaching materials for elementary teachers focused on literacy and science teaching. Publications include Meeting the Challenges: Stories from Today's Classrooms(with M. Barbieri,1996); The National Writing Project's Professional Writing Retreat Handbook(with Check et al., 2001); "Promoting Academic Literacy," in Toward a Collective Wisdom: Forging Successful Educational Partnerships(2000); and a chapter on writing in What's a Teacher to Do: New Curricula for New Standards(1994).
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Literacy
Practitioner Knowledge and Inquiry
Professional Development for Educators
School-University Collaboration
Teacher Development
Teacher Education and Certification
Writing and Literature
Last Modified: 11/22/06
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