White House Names Literacy Specialist to Council on Indian Education
Lori V. Quigley, Ph.D., will be appointed to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education by President George W. Bush, the White House announced on April 8.
Quigley, a literacy specialist, is an assistant professor in the Elementary Education and Reading Department at Buffalo State College, where she teaches graduate-level courses in the college's two literacy specialist programs and in the Childhood and Early Childhood Curriculum and Instruction master's program. She is also director of the college's Literacy Center, which helps K through 12 students improve their reading and writing skills.
Quigley, a resident of Salamanca, is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and belongs to the wolf clan. She earned her doctorate in language, learning, and literacy from Fordham University.
Quigley has been instrumental in writing grants that resulted in obtaining approximately $3 million for the Seneca Nation, including a $1.2 million grant to develop a strategic plan and training to preserve the Seneca language, in cooperation with the Center for Excellence in Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State. She also wrote a Reading First grant for the Mount Morris school district, which resulted in an award of $646,000.
"It's my hope," said Quigley, "that Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative has begun to force public schools to examine why Native American students are not performing as well as they can, and why, and then find solutions to effect change." According to Quigley, Native American students continue to have the highest high-school dropout rate of any ethnic subgroup in the United States. She is very much interested in promoting academic achievement within this group, in addition to her work educating literacy specialists.
Besides her work at Buffalo State, she serves as a member of the Seneca Nation Head Start Policy Council and as treasurer of the Seneca Nation Library Board of Trustees. She also co-edited a recent publication of Impact, the journal of the New York State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (NYSASCD), and contributed an article on conflict in schools for that journal. Other recent academic publications include articles in the International Learning Journal, including one on using constructive instructional strategies and technology to revitalize the Seneca language.
Quigley uses her unique combination of skills and interests to serve Buffalo State College, the Seneca Nation, and literacy specialists throughout New York State. Her own love of literature extends to children's literature, and she has an extensive collection of Native American children's literature.
Quigley, a literacy specialist, is an assistant professor in the Elementary Education and Reading Department at Buffalo State College, where she teaches graduate-level courses in the college's two literacy specialist programs and in the Childhood and Early Childhood Curriculum and Instruction master's program. She is also director of the college's Literacy Center, which helps K through 12 students improve their reading and writing skills.
Quigley, a resident of Salamanca, is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and belongs to the wolf clan. She earned her doctorate in language, learning, and literacy from Fordham University.
Quigley has been instrumental in writing grants that resulted in obtaining approximately $3 million for the Seneca Nation, including a $1.2 million grant to develop a strategic plan and training to preserve the Seneca language, in cooperation with the Center for Excellence in Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State. She also wrote a Reading First grant for the Mount Morris school district, which resulted in an award of $646,000.
"It's my hope," said Quigley, "that Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative has begun to force public schools to examine why Native American students are not performing as well as they can, and why, and then find solutions to effect change." According to Quigley, Native American students continue to have the highest high-school dropout rate of any ethnic subgroup in the United States. She is very much interested in promoting academic achievement within this group, in addition to her work educating literacy specialists.
Besides her work at Buffalo State, she serves as a member of the Seneca Nation Head Start Policy Council and as treasurer of the Seneca Nation Library Board of Trustees. She also co-edited a recent publication of Impact, the journal of the New York State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (NYSASCD), and contributed an article on conflict in schools for that journal. Other recent academic publications include articles in the International Learning Journal, including one on using constructive instructional strategies and technology to revitalize the Seneca language.
Quigley uses her unique combination of skills and interests to serve Buffalo State College, the Seneca Nation, and literacy specialists throughout New York State. Her own love of literature extends to children's literature, and she has an extensive collection of Native American children's literature.
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