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literacyworldwide.org | July/August 2018 | LITERACY TODAY
LIT BITS
ILA Announces 2018 Board
Election Results
We are pleased to announce ILA’s newly elected
Board members, including our Vice President,
Kathy N. Headley, professor of literacy and senior
associate dean at Clemson University, South
Carolina.
Our three new Board members-at-large are:
Juli-Anne Benjamin, English educator,
instructional coach, and leadership mentor
from Newark, NJ
Wendy Carss, lecturer in literacy education
at the University of Waikato, New Zealand
Kenneth Kunz, K–12 supervisor of curriculum and
instruction in New Jersey Public Schools and
president of the New Jersey Literacy Association
Their terms will run 2018–2021.
The entire ILA community extends its best
wishes to the newly elected Vice President and
Board members.
Headley
Benjamin
Carss
Kunz
Out Now:
Standards 2017
ILA’s Standards for the Preparation of Literacy
Professionals 2017 is now available. Developed
by literacy experts across the United States,
Standards 2017 sets forth the criteria for
developing and evaluating preparation programs
for literacy professionals, focusing on the
knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary
for effective educational practice in a specific
role and highlighting contemporary research
and evidence-based practices in curriculum,
instruction, assessment, and leadership. Visit
literacyworldwide.org/standards2017 to learn
more and to purchase a copy.