Laura Duggan – Reading Specialist
Professional Profile
- Certified Waldorf Teacher
- Extensive teaching experience for adults and children in reading, technology, and philosophy
- Active tutor for reading skills
- Writer, editor, and publisher of a children’s literature website (litkidz.com)
- Meditation teacher and practitioner for over 40 years
- Computer professional for over 40 years
Education
- Waldorf Teacher Training Certificate: Center for Education Renewal, Santa Rosa
- Bank Street School of Education: Teaching Decoding Skills
- B.S. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, Mathematics & Education
- Certificate, Mindfulness in Schools curriculum
Unique Teaching Skills:
- One-on-one tutoring for reading and math, grades 3 to 6
- Teaching reading skills to struggling readers in elementary grades
- Teaching technology to middle-school students and high school students
- Integrating remedial movement activities into academic learning
- Offering centering skills to students for social/emotional support
- Teaching humanities (Transcendentalists) to high school students
- Coaching High School students on writing college essays
Experience:
- Reading Specialist and Remedial Education Assistant
- Live Oak Waldorf Charter School, Petaluma, CA
- Technology Instructor
- Salmon Creek Middle School, Occidental, CA
- Technology Instructor
- Fitch Mountain Campus, Healdsburg Elementary Schools
- Tutor and Writing Coach
- Sonoma County, CA
- Education Manager
- SYDA Meditation Foundation, New York
- Education Manager
- Pacific Technology Software, Hong Kong
- Curriculum Development & Training Manager
- Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, CA
- Training and Curriculum Development (Contract)
- White House and House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
- Instructor
- Catholic University, Washington DC
