KYLENE BEERSDr. Kylene Beers was an international literacy consultant and a Senior Reading Researcher at the Comer School Development Program at Yale University. She began her career as a middle school language arts teacher outside of Houston, TX. She was the auhor or co-author of many best-selling books including When Kids Can't Read/What Teachers Can Do; Forged by Reading; Disrupting Thinking; Reading Nonfiction; and Notice and Note - Strategies for Close Reading. Disrupting Thinking, which she co-authored with Robert Probst, is a 2018 recipient of the Teachers Choice Awards.

Kylene served on committees with the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English and was an often-invited keynote speaker to national and state conventions. She served as president of the National Council of Teachers of English and as a board member for the international LitWorld Foundation. She was a recipient of the NCTE Leadership Award and the NCTE Middle Grades Outstanding Teacher award.

Most importantly, Kylene was an exemplary teacher who worked in classrooms across the nation and shoulder-to-shoulder with teachers and students.

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