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Laura Waller is an exciting, young, dynamic teacher. She began her career in education by teaching for several years as an elementary education Reading Specialist in an inner city school in Washington, D.C. With degrees from both Appalachian State University in North Carolina, and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, she is experienced with ESL students, underprivileged students, Title One students and many other students who struggle in reading, writing, or mathematics in grades kindergarten through five.
With a strong focus on differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, thematic teaching, and technology to encourage motivation and high academic achievement by her students, she is now teaching underprivileged children in a rural school in North Carolina. Recently she has received funding from the Bright Ideas Grant to implement hands on literacy centers that support learning with a focus on technology and preparing students to be globally competitive in the 21st Century.
Her teaching tactics have been featured in a professional development video soon to be released by Corwin Press, and she is currently co-authoring a book, Differentiation and Response to Intervention in Reading for the Elementary and Middle School Grades. She serves on the Jones County World View team; a team that strives to create global learners in the classrooms. Laura offers workshops on the use of smart boards, e-assessments, and other technologies in the classroom to facilitate differentiation and response to intervention.
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