Ramona Chauvin
Ramona Chauvin is a Program Associate with SEDL's Improving School Performance program.
Contact Information
You may contact Ramona Chauvin at 800-644-8671
Experience/Education
Prior to joining SEDL in January 2008, Dr. Chauvin was a Region II Reading First Regional Coordinator for the Louisiana State Department of Education, Program Director of Western Washington University's K-8 Teacher Education Program in Everett, Washington. She also has over 25 years of classroom experience as a teacher in grades 5-12 and 13 years of experience in higher education institutions in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Washington. She holds a PhD from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in curriculum and instruction with a focus on teacher development, adult learning, narrative inquiry, and educational administration. Her master's degree is in curriculum and instruction with a focus in reading from UNO and her BA in English Education is from Nicholls State University.
In 2000, Dr. Chauvin was the senior writer/researcher for Reading Links, a PreK-6 collaborative project that was part of the federal program Linking Educational Reform and Educational Technology, the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Education, and the Washington Alliance for Better Schools. Dr. Chauvin also served as a lead writer with the Washington Alliance for Better Schools for the creation of Secondary Reading Strategies: Tools and Strategies for Improving Reading in Content Areas, a set of teacher handbooks (i.e., general reading, mathematics, science, and social studies) to be used as part of staff development for middle and high school teachers, coaches, and administrators.
She has had a lead role in conducting train-the-trainer sessions as well as intensive professional development with individual schools, school districts, district consortiums, and annual state department conferences and summer institutes in K-12 reading/literacy.