Norma St. Croix
Norma St. Croix (x26nmsc@mun.ca) is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Memorial University Faculty of Education where she teaches Reading Development and Assessment. Norma’s research interests are assessment-informed decision making, reading instruction, and teacher education. She has over 35 years of education experience as an assistant teaching professor, consultant, program specialist, administrator, coach, and a teacher.
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Residency model powers district’s structured literacy reform
The Canadian education system receives accolades on international assessments, yet nearly 1 in 5 of Canadian adults’ literacy skills are at a basic level or below (Statistics Canada, 2013). For decades, Canadian early literacy instruction has tended to emphasize implicit, inquiry-based teaching of global competencies, to the exclusion of explicit […]