The Building Blocks of Preschool Success

About Katherine A. BeauchatKatrin L. BlameySharon Walpole

Katherine A. Beauchat EdD is Assistant Professor at York College of Pennsylvania where she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in literacy education. Her research interests include professional development for preschool educators in the area of literacy and language instruction and effective techniques and strategies to bolster oral language and vocabulary development for at-risk preschool children.Katrin L. Blamey PhD is an early childhood literacy coach at the Delaware Center for Teacher Education in Newark Delaware and also coaches preschool teachers at a Head Start center. Her research interests include finding effective practical ways to implement professional development in the preschool setting and developing instructional techniques for building the language and literacy skills of preschool-age English language learners. Sharon Walpole PhD is Professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. She has extensive school-based experience designing and implementing tiered instructional programs. Dr. Walpole has also been involved in federally funded and other schoolwide reform projects. Her current work involves the design and effects of schoolwide reforms. She has coauthored or coedited several books including How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction Second Edition: Resources for Grades K-3; The Literacy Coachs Handbook Second Edition; and Organizing the Early Literacy Classroom. Dr. Walpole is also Series Editor with Michael C. McKenna of The Essential Library of PreK-2 Literacy. She is a recipient of the Early Career Award for Significant Contributions to Literacy Research and Education from the Literacy Research Association and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Delaware.