Patricia Edwards
    Patricia Edwards is a professor of teacher education. She has developed two nationally acclaimed family literacy programs: Parents as Partners in Reading and Talking Your Way to Literacy. Her research focuses on issues related to families and children: parent involvement and teacher thinking, parent involvement in the reading/writing process, parent support of children's oral preparation for literacy, portfolio instructional conversations with parents during regularly scheduled parent-teacher conferences, and parents' stories of literacy and teachers' reactions to these stories.  

    

Patricia Edwards's Presidential Address from National Reading Conference 2007:
Video now available online!

In November 2007, Dr. Patricia Edwards gave the Presidential Address at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference in Austin, Texas. Her presentation -- entitled "The Education of African American Students: Voicing the Debates, Controversies, and Solutions" -- is now available for online viewing for the first time. To view this informative and inspirational presentation, click here.
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