Introducing Diane Duff…
Last year we designated Fridays for Teachers here at Best Tools for Schools. Why? Well because after a long week with our children they deserve a break by Friday. We’ve tried to keep things amusing and offer useful information for those on the front lines but we’re not experts in the education field. So we went out and found one!
Diane Duff is a secondary English and French teacher and former principal of a school for students in academic crisis. She now works with her team at Aldridge-Duff, supporting children with special needs in Ottawa and Toronto. Diane especially enjoys her work as a teacher trainer and literacy consultant. Just to make sure she’s never bored, Diane is also writing her Master’s thesis: Montessori Teacher Education and the Science of Early Reading.
Why do we love her? Because she’s a wealth of information – especially about learning disabilities and emergent reading/writing. She keeps abreast of education news from around the globe – and she happens to be an incredibly kind person to boot.
So we’re going to step aside on Fridays to start bringing our teachers information with real value. We hope you’ll love Diane’s posts. We encourage you to leave her comments and to check out her website.
Diane starts posting here October 2, 2009.
