Presentations from the 2008 Literacy Summit
Main Sessions
Mayor Walt Maddox (View
Presentation), a Tuscaloosa native,
has led initiatives to increase economic development,
improve customer service and provide quality pre-k
education for academically at-risk four-year old
children since his inauguration in 2005.
The majority of Mayor Maddox’s professional career
has been spent in public education. From 1996
to 2001, he served as a Field Director with the
Alabama Education Association. In 2001, he was
appointed Executive Director of Personnel for
the Tuscaloosa City Schools and, in that same
year, he was elected as City Councilman for the
Sixth District. View
Maddox Presentation
Mrs. Sherrill W. Parris (View
Presentation) of Montgomery is Assistant
State Superintendent of Education for the Alabama
Department of Education.
From 1998 to 2007, she served as the administrator
of the highly successful Alabama Reading Initiative.
In 1997, she served on the Alabama Reading Panel,
a group of professionals from the business community
and from education who worked together to develop
the Alabama Reading Initiative, which has grown
from 16 schools in 1998 to its current 907 schools.
This is a K-12 comprehensive strategy to bring
the best research on reading instruction and the
best teaching practices to classrooms in Alabama.
Parris first began work with her life’s passion,
education, in 1979. After 14 years in the classroom,
she became a principal with Selma City Schools
in Alabama. Her work within the school system
was the springboard to directing her passion toward
all of Alabama’s children.
View Parris Presentation
Mr. Joe Macaluso (View
Presentation) is currently
the Director, Adult Education and GED Testing
Programs, Division of Instructional and Student
Services, Alabama Department of Postsecondary
Education. Before retiring from a 26-year Air
Force career in 1995, he served those last 12
years as an instructor, curriculum and test developer,
and education administrator. View
Macaluso Presentation
Dr. Margaret Doughty (View
Presentation) ,
founder of Literacy Powerline of Palacios, Texas,
is an international literacy expert. As the only
literacy coalition development consultant in the
US, she supports communities developing broad
based literacy plans as well as specific planning
in workforce development, health, family and financial
literacy.
A native of the UK, Margaret has been involved
in literacy in Africa, the Middle East and the
US, developing coalitions, facilitating regional
literacy planning, advocating for system change
and raising resources.
In 2000 she was awarded the Order of the British
Empire by HRH Queen Elizabeth II for her contribution
to the field of literacy. Margaret serves on the
board of Literacy Texas and Literacy Advance of
Houston. View
Doughty Presentation
Ms.
Sue Matkin (View
Presentation) is Assistant
Vice President for Information Services and Manager
of the Crisis Relief Council for the United Way
of Tarrant County (Texas). She is building a county
wide coalition that is implementing a new strategic
plan to address adult literacy issues. Current
projects include a faith based initiative to increase
current literacy services, two work place projects
with the Rotary Club of Fort Worth and the creation
of a North Texas Literacy Partnership between
Dallas United Way, Tarrant County United Way and
the North Texas Future Fund, a foundation supporting
the North Texas Commission.
She also has experience as a teacher in middle
and high school, in banking and non profit management.
She has over 25 years experience working in Early
Childhood Education and Adult Education.View
Matkin Presentation
Ms. Jackie Wuska Hurt (View
Presentation), a Birmingham native,
began her duties as President and Executive Director
of The Literacy Council in July 2003. Prior to
this, Jackie was in higher education fundraising
for over ten years in Tuscaloosa at The University
of Alabama and in Birmingham at UAB. During her
five-year tenure at The Literacy Council, its
budget has doubled to $700,000 with 69% of increases
allocated to program work. View
Hurt Presentation
Ed
McFalls Presentation
Breakout Sessions
The
Power of Partnerships
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