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After 29 years as a teacher in grades 1 through 6 in the Lennox School District near Los Angeles, Rhoda Coleman became a reading/language arts consultant for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. She provided professional development to districts wrote and produced 26 teacher training videos and designed and taught online courses for reading, writing and English language development. She then taught credential candidates as full-time faculty at California State University, Dominguez Hills for three years. While completing her doctorate in Educational Leadership: Language and Literacy at the University of Southern California, she was a full-time staff member in the teacher education program. At both sites, Dr. Coleman supervised student teachers and taught methods in history/social science, reading/ language arts and theories of English language acquisition and learning. She also teaches in the Reading Certificate program at UCLA.
Dr. Coleman is a series consultant for Harcourt Social Studies, is an active trainer for the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA, the California History/Social Science Project, and continues to consult for Los Angeles County Office of Education, working with Program Improvement schools. Currently she is a research fellow for the Center for Language Minority Education and Research at California State University, Long Beach. She was California Teacher of the Year in 1995, California Council for the Social Studies Teacher of the Year in 1996, a recipient of the Milken National Educator Award in 1996 and a recipient of USC's ROSE Award in 2000. |