Ramona Chauvin
Program Associate
Ramona Chauvin is a Program Associate with SEDL's Improving School Performance program.
Contact Information
You may contact Ramona Chauvin at 800-644-8671
Prior to joining SEDL in January 2008, Dr. Chauvin was a Region II Reading First Regional Coordinator for the Louisiana State Department of Education, Program Director of Western Washington University's K-8 Teacher Education Program in Everett, Washington. She also has more than 25 years of classroom experience as a teacher in grades 5–12 and 13 years of experience in higher education institutions in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Washington.
In 2000, Dr. Chauvin was the senior writer/researcher for Reading Links, a PreK–6 collaborative project that was part of the federal program Linking Educational Reform and Educational Technology, the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Education, and the Washington Alliance for Better Schools. Dr. Chauvin also served as a lead writer with the Washington Alliance for Better Schools for the creation of Secondary Reading Strategies: Tools and Strategies for Improving Reading in Content Areas, a set of teacher handbooks (i.e., general reading, mathematics, science, and social studies) to be used as part of staff development for middle and high school teachers, coaches, and administrators.
She has had a lead role in conducting train-the-trainer sessions as well as intensive professional development with individual schools, school districts, district consortiums, and annual state department conferences and summer institutes in K–12 reading/literacy.
EducationDr. Chauvin holds a PhD from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in curriculum and instruction with a focus on teacher development, adult learning, narrative inquiry, and educational administration. Her master's degree is in curriculum and instruction with a focus in reading from UNO and her BA in English Education is from Nicholls State University.
Professional Development Sessions Presented by Ramona Chauvin
Ramona Chauvin teaches SEDL's professional development session, "What Does It Mean to Teach Reading Explicitly? and another session, "Adolescent Literacy: How to Access and Comprehend Text and another session, "Developing Deeper Thinking and Understanding Through Effective Questioning.
- Rapid Response: Response to Intervention Progress Monitoring Resources for Grades K–12 (2009)
- Rapid Response: Alignment of University Curricula for Preservice Teachers With Scientifically Based Reading Research (2008)
- Rapid Response: Alternate Reading Core Curriculum for Students with Disabilities (K–3) (2008)
- Rapid Response: Early Childhood Education Curricula and Programs for PreK Students (2008)
- Rapid Response: Multisensory Structured Language Programs for Students With Characteristics of Dyslexia (2008)