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Lucille
T. Chagnon, M.Ed.
Community-based
literacy has been Lucille Chagnon’s passion ever since
she taught her ten-year-old adopted twin sons to read, and three
months later they taught a six-year-old who, when she was eight,
taught another six-year-old to read with the same book.
A one-time inner-city Principal and longtime teacher in five states, Lucille
taught a three-credit Urban Literacy Practicum at Rutgers University’s
Camden Campus for eight years and directed the Urban Literacy Program through
which hundreds of undergraduates from all majors tutored children, youth, and
adults in schools, agencies, and their own families.
Other Literacy Tutors that Lucille has trained include:
- Children,
youth, and parents in summer-long literacy programs in an urban
housing development;
- Third and
8th graders in remedial and special education programs;
- Teacher
Mentors and Instructional Aides;
- Special
education and remedial teachers;
- Teachers
from juvenile institutions and a federal prison;
- LVA-trained
inmates at NJ State Prison, a maximum security facility;
- AmeriCorps
literacy tutors.
At
Rutgers-Camden, Lucille taught learning-to-learn and writing
strategies to underprepared college students with the Educational
Opportunity Fund Program for ten years. She also taught Developmental
Reading for the Education Department and was a Curriculum Development
Specialist in a Teaching Excellence Center joint venture with
a public school. She has taught open enrollment ABE and GED classes
for the Camden Housing Authority and for Delaware Technical and
Community College. In Philadelphia, she was on the staff of Drexel
University’s state-funded Workforce Development Institute,
and for five years she taught a graduate course in Career Counseling
and Development at Temple University.
Lucille
is the author of Easy Reader, Learner, Writer: Six Videotapes
and a Teacher Guide (American Guidance Service, 1994); Voice
Hidden, Voice Heard: A Reading and Writing Anthology (Kendall/Hunt,
1998 - out of print); You, Yes YOU, Can Teach Someone to Read:
A Step by Step How-To Book (AuthorHouse, 2006).
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