Dr. Paula Salvio specializes in integrating theatre and the visual arts into the reading and writing workshop as a means through which to differentiate instruction for students and support the professional development of teachers. She is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of New Hampshire where she directed one of the first doctoral Programs in Writing developed by Donald Graves. She has worked with leading educators in writing such as Jo Anne Portalupi, Ralph Fletcher, Jane Hansen, Lad Tobin and Don Murray. Over the last ten years, Paula has worked as a literacy consultant throughout New York and New Hampshire as well as in South Africa and Hong Kong. In the New York Public Schools, her work includes a focus on collaborating with teachers, Principals and Superintendents to generate school-wide change, assess school-wide improvement outcomes, and design self-assessment methods for schools that are engaged in systematic improvement that will lead to increased student achievement in writing and reading at all grade levels. Paula publishes widely in major educational journals, presents at national and international educational conferences. She is the author of Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance, (State University of New York Press, 2007) and co-editor (with Gail Boldt) of Love’s Return: Psychoanalytic Essays on Childhood, Teaching and Learning (Routledge, 2006).
