As a professional and scholar I conscientiously and actively pursue professional activities in order to keep myself current with issues and concerns surrounding reading and language arts, maintain and expand professional relationships with colleagues in my discipline and other related disciplines, continue to be a relevant and productive contributor to my discipline and other related disciplines, and to add visibility to my department, school, and university.

Among my professional affiliations include: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), National Reading Conference (NRC), International Reading Association (IRA), Connecticut Association for Reading Research (CARR), New England Reading Association (NERA), Phi Delta Kappa, CCSU Chapter (PDK), and the Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking (CELT). I am also active in the Connecticut Literacy Think Tank, a consortium of professional educators who are either directly or indirectly involved in reading and language arts from the State of Connecticut, i.e., Central Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, Western Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, St. Joseph’s College, University of Hartford, University of Bridgeport, University of Connecticut, and the State Department of Education/Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction. The Think Tank committee serves as a consulting/advisory body to the Connecticut Association for Reading Research and the Connecticut Reading Association on issues that impact on curriculum and instruction, and assessments in reading and language arts in the state of Connecticut. I also served as Publication Chair and Editor for the Connecticut Association for Reading Research (CARR). CARR is a professional organization dedicated to the enhancement and improvement of professional development of reading and language arts educators in Connecticut. It advocates leadership in support of research, policy and practice that improves reading instruction and supports the best interests of all learners and reading professionals. It also encourages and supports research at all levels of reading and language arts education to promote informed decision making by reading professionals, policy makers, and the public. Through CARR, our graduate students in reading and language arts have received scholarships and research awards. Additionally, I am Treasurer and Chair of the Membership Committee of the Phi Delta Kappa, CCSU Chapter. PDK is an international professional association in education designed to stimulate the professional growth of members and to deal with current problems and issues related to public education. My appointment to the State of Connecticut Task Force for helping struggling readers in Connecticut grades four to nine is beneficial to our department particularly in informing our curriculum and instruction in the clinical sequence—diagnosis and remediation in reading and language arts.

I have always been passionate and committed to working with teachers in classroom practice as well as parents in supporting their children’s literacy learning through professional development programs. I facilitated a series of Annual Parent University Collaborative Professional Development Project in the New Britain Consolidated Schools (2007, 2008 & 2009).

Recently, I have been invited to serve on the Board of the New Britain Grade-Level Reading Campaign, a funded program in collaboration with the Annie E. Casey Grade Level Reading Campaign, the Connecticut Center for School Change, the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, and the Connecticut Department of Education to ensure that all students in New Britain are reading at grade level by the end of grade 3, and the Welcome to My World Autism-a support group for parents with children with autism. Serving on executive boards allows me to influence policies or decisions that impact student learning.

Dr. Jesse "the Walking Man" Turner - One Man Walking In The Name of Love

Dr. Jesse Turner - the Walking Man. Learn about Dr. Turner and his amazing work and activism all for the children. You will meet an extraordinary man who will inspire you and motivate you to lay down your life for the greatest cause of our lifetime. You will meet a real life hero.

Join his event - One Man Walking in the Name of Love
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Jesse's Walking to DC Page - https://www.facebook.com/Walking2DCJesse

Gary Loper is a recognized Twitter expert, life and business coach, mindset coach, motivational speaker, trainer, former talk radio host, and highly respected entrepreneur, helping people master the business of life by Building Better Relationships. In addition, Gary’s strong background in marketing and sales, and his 30+ years of superior customer service and 15 years of direct sales adds more depth to who he is. He teaches his audience strategies and tactics on how to become successful, to produce and maintain positive solutions, to stay in a positive mindset, and attract and manifest true wealth. He empowers people to discover their hidden assets, develop certainty and create better relationships with themselves first, before creating life and business relationships. He is living proof of how to take your personal experience and shift it in a positive direction. His foundation to ‘Building Better Relationships’ is based on the determination to build a positive life contrary from his upbringing. Living in the midst of dysfunctional family dynamics and challenged by personal losses, he was guided into new levels of understanding with relationships and applied those experiences as a vehicle to live a purposeful life, to help others. He learned that his purpose was to empower people to discover their gifts, develop confidence and create better relationships with themselves and others in their lives.

With 160,000+ followers on Twitter he has built a huge following based on adding value to people’s lives, sharing his knowledge, beliefs and philosophies in his messages. He has incorporated into his platform ‘Just for Today’ messages, inspirational messages that have helped people renew their hope. What’s more, Gary has worked with some of the top coaches in the world including Bob Burg, Loral Langemeier and Eric Lofholm. He is platinum certified with the Eric Lofholm Selling System, and a certified Go-Giver Coach through Bob Burg International, and a certified ‘YES! Energy Coach’ through Live Out Loud. Studying from some of the top teachers in coaching, business and financial development, he now has a deep well of tools to assist entrepreneurs to create an abundant business as well as becoming an even better person for themselves, their family, partners, and all the lives they may touch. He is the author of 3 eBooks: , Guide to Getting More Followers, and 37 Keys to Building Better Networking Relationships and 20 Secrets to Building Better Love Relationships. 

Twitter Expert, Business-Life Relationship Coach, Certified Consultant w/Bob Burg Intl., Go Giver Facilitator, and Certified YES! Energy Coach w/Loral Langemeier, Sales Trainer w/Eric Lofholm International, Mindset Coach, Training at the Gremlin-Taming Institute, Motivational Speaker and Trainer

Mastering Your Twitterverse 

Making an Impact One Tweet at a Time:

Learn from Gary how-to-build your confidence and ease in ‘Twitterverse’.        

There are many strategies and tactics to becoming successful. It is more than knowledge; it is learning how to engage, target your audience and attract potential customers to your offerings.  Gary’s specific guidelines dramatically will drive customers to your website and shift your business to a level of success.

Known as a Twitter expert, Gary Loper uses his passion for social media to make a difference 140 characters at a time. He shares powerful ways he has used social media and particularly Twitter to share motivational messages, spread his mission, as well as building better relationships and connections.

Mastering Your Twitterverse:  Get More Followers by ‘Building Better Relationships’; build your community network, leverage social media and learn social media etiquette.

Understanding the Laws to Stratospheric Success: Learn the 5 laws ~ The Law of: Value, Compensation, Influence, Authenticity, Receptivity ~ a way to share the ideals of GIVING to create better relationships and businesses.

How to Build a Network of Endless Referrals: Learn how to dramatically increase your referral business without spending more time or money, a proven way to quickly and dramatically increase sales in any type of business.

Joel Garbon serves as President of the nonprofit The New Energy Movement, which educates about breakthrough energy technologies and their implications for human society and our imperiled planet, while also serving as an advocate organization for inventors of these technologies. He is a founding member of New Energy Congress, a forum of technical professionals who investigate new energy technologies.

Garbon is the author of an historic legislative draft titled Energy Innovation Act of 2007 which serves as a template for new energy legislation on the federal, state, local, and international levels.  The legislation’s provisions call for urgent and serious public support for research and development of breakthrough energy technologies, and was presented to senators and representatives in the United States Congress.

Garbon received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He has worked for more than 30 years as an international industrial science consultant and educator within the chemical, pulp and paper, and water treatment industries. He is the inventor and developer of several successful commercial technologies used within these industries.

Garbon is co-author with investigative journalist Jeane Manning of the award-winning book BREAKTHROUGH POWER: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World which chronicles the challenges, opportunities, and progress in the new energy technology field. The authors make the appeal for a “tidal wave of wisdom” and the concurrent evolution of energy technology and human consciousness as foundations for a new era on planet Earth.

Akashianna is a medicine woman, visionary, spiritual guide, minister, beloved teacher and consummate lover of life.  She embodies true love for all beings.

Whether in prayer, counseling, guiding and ceremony, Akshianna shines spiritual truths through her embodiment of mindfulness and inspired actions for her heart, knowing that all is within us and all is one.

Her reverence for Mother Earth is demonstrated through her BEAUTY WAY CREATIONS FOUNDATION – assisting the transformation of lawns to gardens a sacred union of bringing beauty to our mother earth.

Akashianna’s greatest joy is her role as facilitator and holding space for individuals and groups to reunite and remember their inner perfection and wholeness in connection  and concert with the universe.  Her work is through sacred journey work, sacred travel and mirroring the sacred in each being she touches.

dr. michael ryce is the founder and director of HeartLand, a self-healing center in the Ozark mountains. He is a world renowned lecturer and teacher on health and healing, with doctorates in Naturopathic Medicine and in Holistic Philosophy. The focus of his studies has combined bodymind principles, physics and ancient Aramaic studies into a unique body of pioneering work in the fields of self-healing, healing through relationships, anger and grief resolution, world peace and the inner process of Forgiveness.

His unique syntheses of information and tools is acclaimed, “a powerful blend of spiritual principles and intellectual clarity, guided by the heart!” His workshops explain, with profound simplicity, how the mind/body/emotion interaction affects health, every event in life, and impacts our relationships. In each self-contained workshop, effective tools are presented to assist in creating high-level wellness and eliminating upset, lack and conflict. His book, Why Is This Happening To Me . . . Again?!, is an international best seller.

In 2001 dr. ryce was appointed director of the Khabouris Manuscript foundation and is currently editing translation work from the Manuscript and writing a new book based on the Khabouris, "The End Of Suffering, Resurrecting The Original Aramaic Y'Shua".

The Khabouris (also spelled Khaburis) Codex is a copy of the oldest known Eastern Canon of the New Testament in its native, and the original language of the Scriptures, Aramaic. The physical manuscript has been carbon-dated at approximately 1000 AD plus or minus 50 years. The colophon bears the seal and signature of the Bishop at the Church at Nineveh, then capital of the Assyrian Empire located today in the present-day Iraqi city of Mosul. According to colophon it is a copy of a text from approximately 164 AD.

dr. ryce’s background includes electronics, business, and theology. He has a reputation among his peers as a teachers’ teacher and a healers’ healer. A dynamic speaker, he is much sought after for his skill in teaching the practical application of “self-help” tools. His work has been exposed, through private workshops and seminars and television and radio work, to approximately 500,000 people in the last thirty five years. michael has made a commitment to make the tools he has developed available to every mind on the planet and, as a result, his travel workshops are free so everyone, regardless of the ability to pay, will have access to the tools presented. Anyone with health, financial, career, or relationship problems can begin to turn their situations around immediately when they use the tools dr. ryce offers.

Julie Motz is best known for her energy work during heart transplant surgery with Dr. Mehmet Oz. In 1994, Julie Motz pioneered the practice of doing energy healing in the operating room while patients were having surgery. Her book about this work, "Hands Of Life," has been published in five languages and is used world-wide to help people get through surgery with reduced complications and speedier recovery time. She has been featured in the NY Times Magazine, Psychology Today and on CNN. She now works with a wide range of physical and emotional issues including depression, anxiety and addiction. www.juliemotz.com

RICK CHICAGO (AKA Earthplay) is an amateur astrophysics and geophysics researcher. A former Fire Safety officer for NASCAR, and a former Hot Air balloon operator for the last 5 or 6 years, Rick has studied the anomolies in our solar system and the events of the ever changing earth and its cycles and has come to some chilling results.

Rick's weekly coverage on Liberation Nation radio show has given him a reputation as a straight talker about topics to do with coming earth changes. His specialities include the methane hydrate eruptions now taking place, the fukushima extinction level event and the earthquake cycles attributed to inner magma movements within the earth. Rick is also a wilderness enthusiast, and a pro-nature advocate who is self trained in survivalist scenarios.

TERRAFORMING EARTH INTERNET RADIO with Earthplay (Rick Chicago) and Billy Hayes

ABOUT US

The Terraforming Earth Research team consists of many individuals and researchers who have evolved together and morphed into a congealed group of reporters, researchers and enthusiasts keen on tracking the ever changing world around us and its' impact on the Human species living within.

Rick's youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Earthplayful