| Speaker Bio
Michael P. Ford is the Associate Dean of the College of Education and Human Services at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He has spent the past eighteen years working on reading issues and ideas with both preservice and inservice teachers throughout the world. His work with the international school associations has taken him to Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He is a former first grade and Title I Reading teacher who took personal leave from his college position to teach first grade full-time during the 1997-1998 school year.
He is the co-author of Reaching Readers and Where Have All the Bluebirds Gone both published by Heinemann. He has also written over forty professional articles for the publications like The Reading Teacher, Reading Today, Language Arts, and The Learning Disabilities Forum. He is the former president of the Wisconsin State Reading Association and its current Advocacy Chairperson. He is the father of two boys who inform his thinking about literacy programs on a daily basis.
Grades: K - 6 |
