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I have been teaching for eighteen years at the middle level.  I am currently teaching at Kingsley Junior High. Eleven of those eighteen years of teaching have been with Unit 5 school district at Parkside Junior High and Kingsley Junior High.  My other teaching years were spent at Stratford Junior High in Bloomingdale, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago - near Naperville, Wheaton, and Carol Stream). 

I am an 8th grade Language Arts teacher on team 8-1. I am also the language arts building chair for KJHS.

Author

I co-authored a book about my Indy 500 program. My co-author was a former graduate professor of mine. She is a researcher in the area of reading. Her name is Susan Davis Lenski. She and I have presented in Chicago, IL and Atlanta, GA about the benefits of independent reading programs. Many of my former students and parents are featured in our book. This was an exciting and rewarding process.

New! October 2007!
An ideal model for . . .
Developing an Independent Reading Program
Grades 4-12

Erexenia Lanier, Language Arts Teacher and Building Chair for the department, Kingsley Junior High, Normal, IL

Susan Davis Lenski, Professor, Portland State University, OR

Ideal for any grade 4-12 teacher or literacy coach looking to integrate an independent reading program, or improve the one that's already in place, this new book is an in depth analysis of Lanier's successful program, "Indy 500." In it the authors show you the steps necessary to create and integrate a program to benefit students or any language arts program, and to meet standards requirements. Using the "Indy 500" program as a model, the authors describe how to create an original independent reading program, assess student progress, and integrate it into standards-based language arts programs.
2008 Paperbound 232pp est. ISBN: 978-1-933760-17-9 Order #184 $32.95

Reading Success for Struggling Adolescent Learners by Susan Lenski: Book Cover

Editors: Susan Lenski and Jill Lewis

I helped write a chapter in this book with Sue Lenski. 
Making Time for Independent Reading
page 133
Susan Lenski
Erexenia Lanier

Education

I completed my master's from Illinois State University in Curriculum and Instruction in May of 2002.   I graduated from Illinois State University with my bachelors in 1990. I was a middle school major with emphasis in the areas of language arts, reading, and social studies.

I have endorsements in language arts, reading, and social studies.  I have also completed my gifted certification.  

I achieved National Board Certification in November of 2004!!!  This is a teacher accreditation process that is tied to our national standards. This was one of my proudest moments as this was a lot of hard work and reflection!!! Currently, only 1,986 teachers in the state of Illinois have earned this certification!!

State Total
North Carolina 11325
Florida 9238
South Carolina 5077
California 3659
Ohio 2629
Mississippi 2555
Georgia 2325
Illinois 1986
Oklahoma 1569
Washington 1306
 

 

For more information about this process see the website   http://www.nbpts.org

 

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