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Leslie Blair

Leslie Blair is a Project Director/Comm. Associate with SEDL's Communications department. She serves as project director for SEDL's dissemination work focused on K-3 literacy resources, which is funded by the National Institute for Literacy. She is also editor of SEDL Letter and works on a variety of corporate communication projects.

Contact Information
You may contact Leslie Blair at 512-391-6507

or by using SEDL's contact form

Experience/Education
Before joining SEDL in 1998, Ms. Blair was a freelance writer/editor, an Information Coordinator with the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, and an Education Writer/Editor with the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.

She holds an MA in English with a concentration in technical writing and professional communication from New Mexico State University.

Publications

1. A Best-Fit Approach to Effective Teacher Policy: (Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, Number 17) (2004)
2. CSRD Connections: Strategies for Change: Implementing a Comprehensive School Reform Program (2000)
3. CSRD Connections: Whatever it Takes: The Challenge of Comprehensive Reform (2000)
4. School Finance Adequacy: The State Role: (Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, Number 16) (2004)
5. SEDL Letter, Volume XIV, Number 3: Putting Reading First (2002)
6. SEDL Letter, Volume XIX, Number 1: Developing a Staff of Learners (2007)
7. SEDL Letter, Volume XIX, Number 2: Reading: Practices to Help Improve Instruction (2007)
8. SEDL Letter, Volume XV, Number 1: Improving Achievement In Mathematics and Science (2003)
9. SEDL Letter, Volume XVI, Number 1: School Finance and Policy: Dollars and Sense (2004)
10. SEDL Letter, Volume XVI, Number 2: Changing High Schools, Changing Our Future (2004)
11. SEDL Letter, Volume XVII, Number 1: Reaching Our Reading Goals (2005)
12. SEDL Letter, Volume XVII, Number 2: Leadership for Learning (2005)
13. SEDL Letter, Volume XVIII, Number 1: Time for Achievement - Afterschool and Out-of-School Time (2006)
14. SEDL Letter, Volume XVIII, Number 2: A Culture of Data (2006)
15. SEDL Letter, Volume XVIII, Number 3: 40 Years of SEDL's Building Knowledge to Support Learning (2006)
16. SEDL Letter, Volume XX, Number 1: Making the Most of Middle School (2008)
17. SEDL Letter, Volume XX, Number 2: Afterschool, Family, and Community (2008)
18. SEDLetter, Volume X, Number 4: Building for Learning (1998)
19. SEDLetter, Volume XI, Number 1: Unlocking the Future: Early Literacy (1999)
20. SEDLetter, Volume XI, Number 2: At the Heart of the Matter: Improving Teaching and Learning Through Professional Development (1999)
21. SEDLetter, Volume XII, Number 1: Putting the Public back into Public Schools (2000)
22. SEDLetter, Volume XII, Number 2: Diversity in Our Schools: New Opportunities for Teaching and Learning (2000)
23. SEDLetter, Volume XIII, Number 1: Changes and Challenges for Rural Schools (2001)
24. SEDLetter, Volume XIII, Number 2: Teachers - They Matter Most (2001)
25. SEDLetter, Volume XIV, Number 1: Family and Community Connections with Schools (2002)
26. SEDLetter, Volume XIV, Number 2: Within Our Reach - Higher Student Achievement (2002)
27. Strategies for Success: Implementing a Comprehensive School Reform Program (2000)