VITA
PEGGY A. RAINES Office: Northern Arizona University
2866 N. Carefree Cir. Center for Excellence in Education
Flagstaff, Az. 86004 Box 5774
(602) 526-3455 Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
(602) 523-7124
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Ph.D., August,1991, Curriculum and Instruction/ Content Area English. Dissertation Title: The Nature of the Reflection of a
Cohort of Novice Secondary Language Arts Teachers.
M.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, M. A., 1978, Education-Administration and Supervision.
B.S. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, B.S., 1972, Education, Emphasis in Language Arts.
EXPERIENCE
Assistant/Associate/Professor
Assistant/Associate/Professor, College of Education, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Responsibilities: teaching High School Teaching Methods, Secondary Curriculum and Principles, Reading in the Content Area, Middle School Curriculum, I-STEP, Diversity, Technology and Literacy, master’s and doctor courses, advising undergraduate and graduate students, new faculty mentor, serving on doctoral dissertation committees, serving on College, area, and university committees.
Teaching Associate Teaching Associate, School of Education, University of 1987-1991 Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Responsibilities: Supervising secondary language arts student teachers and teaching methods seminars in a site-based, tutorial teacher preparation program, teaching Oral Communication for Classroom Teachers and Adolescent Literature, supervising secondary student teachers in several disciplines.
Research Associate Research Associate, School of Education, University of Summers Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Responsibilities: Conducting 1988 -1990 literature searches and synthesizing research into instructional packet for Fall, 1990 Language Arts student teachers engaged in a site-based teacher preparation program.
Research Associate, Colorado Partnership for Educational
Renewal, Denver, Colorado. Responsibilities: Assisting Director in program development and documentation, conducting research and writing major reports.
Health Care Partner in a holistic health care practice, Fort Collins,
Practitioner Colorado. Responsibilities: Coordinating community
1981-1987 education, public speaking, teaching wellness and relaxation classes, performing sports massage therapy and accupressure.
Assistant Principal Assistant Principal, Deer Creek Junior High School, 1979-1981 Littleton, Colorado. Responsibilities: personnel recruitment and selection, public relations, needs assessment and staff development, scheduling, student discipline, and activities coordination.
Assistant Principal, Southern Hills Junior High School, Boulder, Colorado. Responsibilities: staff recruitment and
selection, master scheduling, community relations, building facilities management, personnel appraisal, student discipline, and athletics director.
Teacher/ Teacher/Department Chair, Northglenn Junior High Department Chair School, Northglenn, Colorado. Responsibilities: teaching 1972-1979 7th, 8th, and 9th grade language arts and reading classes; supervision of language arts faculty, budget administration, in-service training, curriculum development and materials selection; sponsored yearbook, drama club, student council, cheerleaders and pep club; coached basketball, volleyball, track, and tennis.
SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
In Progress Willia, E., & Raines, P. Beyond The Tech Cart in Every
Invited Publication Room. This is a book to be published by Dan Weiss Associates that would be for parents on the implications and role of technology in their children’s classrooms. We are still in the negotiation process.
Raines, P. & Oran, S. (2002). Changing Attitudes: The Affect of Diversity Coursework on Elementary and Secondary Pre-service Teachers.
Refereed - Under Review Raines, P. (2002). Nurturing Dispositions in Future Classroom Teachers under review by The Clearing House
Raines, P. (2002). The Gender as Destiny Trap under review by the Sage.
Raines, P. & Hatcher, M. (2002). Women's Identity: Escaping the Gender as Destiny Trap under review by
Gender and Education.
In Press Willis. E. M., Sujo de Montes, L., Raines, P., Garcia, D., & Kotcho, M. (2002) . Technology integration in a pre-service
secondary teacher education program: A closer look in
CITE
Refereed Raines, P. (2002). Introductory essay about Students. In
M. Hatcher (Ed.), Bearing Witness: Poetry by Teachers about Teaching (pp. 66-67). Tucson, Arizona: Zephyr Press.
Raines, P. (2002). Poems in the Section on Students: "By Gone Dreams" and "Eric" In M. Hatcher (Ed.), Bearing
Witness: Poetry by Teachers about Teaching (pp. 90 & 126). Tucson, Arizona: Zephyr Press.
Raines. P. (2002). Poems in the Section on Teachers’ Inner Lives, "Transformation" and "My Bones, My Life". In M. Hatcher (Ed.), Bearing Witness: Poetry by Teachers about
Teaching (pp. 153 & 166). Tucson, Arizona: Zephyr Press.
Raines. P. (2002). Poem in the Section on Teaching: "No Picnic" . In M. Hatcher (Ed.), Bearing Witness: Poetry by
Teachers about Teaching (p 51). Tucson, Arizona: Zephyr Press.
Willis, B. & Raines, P. (2001). Technology in Secondary Teacher Education. THE Journal, 29(2), 54-64.
Willis, B. & Raines, P. (2001). Technology and the
Changing Face of Teacher Education. CITE, (Online
Journal) http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss3/currentpractice/
(1999) Reprint of Portfolio Surveys from my article, Writing Portfolios: Turning the House into a Home will appear in a new book entitled Teaching Writing in Middle and Secondary Schools published by Allyn & Bacon.
Kain, D, Tanner, M., & Raines, P. (1997). Integrated Secondary Teacher Education Program: On The Edge of Partnership, Perspectives: School-University Partnerships. Monograph Series No. 4, CEE, NAU, Flagstaff, Az. (Authors listed in random choice. No sequence is implied).
Invited Publication Raines, P. (1996). How In the World Do You Assess That? Arizona English Bulletin. 38 (2), 16-19..
Raines, P.(1996). Writing Portfolios: Turning the House into a Home. English Journal, 85 (l), 41-45.
Raines, P. & Shadiow, L. (1995). Reflection and Teaching: The Challenge of Thinking Beyond the Doing. The Clearinghouse. 68(5), 271-274.
Republication in 96/97 and 97/98 Annual Editions: Education. Dushkin Publishing.
Heibert, E., Raines, P. & Hutchison, T. (1991). Alternative Assessments of Literacy: Teachers' Actions and Parents' Reactions. In J. Zutella & S, McCormick (Eds.), Learner Factors/ Teacher Factors: Issues in Literacy Research and Instruction (pp 97-110). National Reading
Conference,40th Yearbook. Chicago: The National Reading
Conference, Inc.
Other
Raines, P. (2000). I-STEP: Preparing student teachers. Arizona Daily Sun, C6-7.
Raines, P. (1991). The nature of the reflection of a cohort of
novice secondary language arts teachers. Abstracts International, 52, 07A. (University Microfilms No. 92-06,627)
Raines, P. (1989). Tracking-Diversity-Cognition. Perspectives, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring. Denver,CO: Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal.
Raines. P. (1989) School Reform and the Reform of Assessment. Perspectives, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring. Denver, CO: Colorado Partnership for EducationalRenewal.
Raines, P. (1988). The 1987-88 Year In Review. Denver, CO: Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal
Raines, P., et.al. (1980). Your Reading, co-authored with other Colorado English teachers, Urbana, IL: NCTE Publication.
Grants
Applied/Awarded (1996). Instructional and Curricular Development Program Grant, "Integrated Secondary Teacher Education Program (I-STEP): A School University Partnership," $2,000.
Presentations
National/Regional
Professional Conferences
16th Annual Women in Educational Leadership Conference,
“The Four Faces of Feminine Leadership,” Lincoln, Nebraska, September 29, 2002.
Invited Colorado Language Arts Society Conference, “In Celebration of Teachers: Poetry by Teachers about Teaching, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2, 2002.
National Council of Teachers of English 89th Annual Convention, "Affirming Diversity Through Multiple Literacies, Denver, Colorado, November 18, 1999.
Raines, P., Kain, D. & Tanner, M, The Integrated Secondary Teacher Education Program: Early Stages of Partnership, “Connecting with Schools: The Rewards and Challenges of School Partnerships” National Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, October 17, 1997
Coalition of Essential Schools, 1996 Fall Forum, Integrated Secondary Teacher Education Program: A School-University Partnership, Albuquerque, Nov.,1996
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Conference, Integrated Secondary Teacher Education Program (I-STEP): The Process from Conception to Implementation, Chicago, Illinois, February, 1996.
The Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Integrated Secondary Teacher Education Program (ISTEP): The Process from Conception to Implementation, St. Louis, Missouri, February, 1996.
(Invited) Southwest Regional Literacy Conference, Reflective Teaching: Thinking Beyond the Doing, Durango, Colorado, October, 1995.
National Council of Teachers of English, National Portfolio
Series Conference, Portfolios for Learning and Beyond:
Portfolios, WAC, and Program assessment, Scottsdale, Arizona, June, 1994.
National Council of Teachers of English, National Portfolio
Series Conference, Portfolios for Learning and Beyond: Portfolios, Reflection, and Teacher Research, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 1994.
National Reading Conference, "Alternative Assessments of Literacy: Teachers' Actions and Parents' Reactions,"
Miami, December, 1990.
National Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference, Session Chair, "Using Professional and Personal Journals in Pre-service Teacher Education Programs," Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1990.
State/Local
Professional
Conferences
Fourth Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, “What do You Mean I should Plan my Curriculum Backwards?,” Coconino Community College, Flagstaff, AZ, August 14, 2003.
Invited Keynote Third Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, “Teaching
on the Edge,” Coconino Community College, Flagstaff, AZ, August 15, 2002.
Invited Keynote The Arizona Department of Health Services Abstinence Only Education Program Conference,Phoenix, Arizona, June 15,
2001.
The Way Up 11th Annual Conference for Women in Higher Education, "Gender as Destiny," Mesa, Arizona, October 18, 1999.
Invited Keynote Women of Spirit: Empowering and Honoring Women, "Gender-Based Communication Styles," Prescott, Arizona,
March 27, 1999.
Invited Keynote Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Women in Aviation and Technology Speaker Series
"Interplanetary Communication Styles," February 5, 1999.
The Way Up 10th Annual Conference for Women in Higher Education, "Venutian to Martian: Understanding Gender- Based Communication Differences," Tucson, Arizona, November 9, 1998,
The Way Up 9th Annual Conference for Women in Higher Education, Portfolios: Connecting the Journey to the Vision, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 23, 1997.
Teacher Leaders Conference, "Habits of Mind of the Life- Long Learner", "Designing the Leadership Portfolio", "Teaching as an Inquiry Process", and "Mentor Qualities and Processes", Flagstaff, Arizona, June, 1997.
Teacher Leaders Conference, "Reflection and Inquiry: Creating a Professional Leadership Portfolio," Flagstaff, Az, June, 1996.
Arizona English Teachers Association Annual Conference "Portfolios: Turning the House into a Home", Chandler,Az, October, 1993.
Arizona Reading Association Annual Conference, "Facilitating Reflection Through Portfolio Assessment," Mesa, Az, October, 1993.
Arizona English Teachers Association Annual Conference "Reflective Teaching: Thinking About the Doing", Chandler, Az, November, 1992.
CCIRA State Conference, "Increasing the Teacher's Role in
Assessment - In and Beyond the Classroom," Denver, Colorado, February, 1990.
Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal Working Conference"Looking at the Literature: Guiding Ideas for Developing Alternative Assessments," Denver, Colorado, September, 1990.
Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal Spring General Session, "The Year in Review," Denver, Colorado, 1989 and 1990.
Other
EDF 200 Total Class Gathering - Poetry Readings from Bearing Witness: Poetry by Teachers about Teaching, April 2003.
EDF 200 Total Class Gathering - Poetry Readings from Bearing Witness: Poetry by Teachers about Teaching, April 2001.
CEE Options Fair, Secondary Education Representative, April, 2000.
Northern Arizona University Peace Corps Fellows Seminar, Speaker, July 12, 1999.
Northern Arizona University Peace Corps Fellows Spring Seminar, "Mentors: Caring for Professional Development," February 26, 1999.
Northern Arizona University Celebration of Teaching Conference, "What Do I Need to Know, Be Able to Do and Be like As a Beginning Teacher?",1997.
Colloquia on the Arts, Cultures and Sciences of the Colorado Plateau and Great Southwest, "CEE Partnerships: Beginning a Professional Life", Flagstaff Cable Vision, Channel 4, October 10, 1997.
In-service for CEE Staff, Designing Professional Portfolios, October, 1997.
Mentor Teacher Workshop, NAU, June, 1997.
Northern Arizona University Celebration of Teaching Conference, "So why would I Hire You?" April, 1996.
Northern Arizona University Celebration of Teaching Conference, "What does it Mean to be a Thoughtful Teacher?", April, 1995
Northern Arizona University Celebration of Teaching
Conference, "Teacher Reflection: Developing Habits of Mind", April, 1994.
Invited Keynote KDP Induction Luncheon, “Who’s Responsible for Thoughtfulness?” November, 1994.
CEE Education Mini-Conference, "Reflective Teaching,"
October, 1994.
Sedona Unified Schools Summer Institute, "Performance- based Assessment and Learning Styles", Sedona, Az., July, 1994.
Sedona Unified Schools Summer Institute, "Alternative Assessment: Portfolios", Sedona, Az., July, 1993.
Northern Arizona University Celebration of Teaching Conference, "Student Assessment," April, 1993.
First annual Northern Arizona Take Back the Night Rally, "Violence Against Women: Social Injustice," (keynote address), April 14, 1993.
Northern Arizona University Peer Volunteer Network Training Institute, "Presentation Skills: Getting Your Program to Work for You," February, 1993.
University of Colorado at Boulder, Graduate Teacher Program Spring Intensive Workshop"Presentation Skills for Teachers," January, 1990.
Regis College, Guest Lecturer, Denver, Colorado, 1989 1990, 1993.
University of Colorado at Denver, Guest Lecturer, 1979, 1980.
CONSULTING &
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Staff Development
Joseph City School District, two year consultancy to improve instruction in middle and high school classrooms, 2002-2003.
Featured presenter, Writing Project Portfolio Workshop, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, July, 1996.
Consultant to the Science and Mathematics Learning Center Sunnyside Leadership Project, N.A.U., July, 1996.
Featured presenter, Learning Connections Staff Development Portfolio Workshop, Paradise Valley Community College, October, 1995.
Presenter, Women-In Action Series, N.A.U., July, 1995.
Consultant to the Flagstaff Public Schools for K-12
implementation of portfolio assessment to meet the
Arizona Student Assessment Program requirements.
Contract runs from 1992-1996.
Consultant to Flagstaff Public Schools for modification and implementation of portfolio assessment in all Chapter One programs,1994.
Consultant to the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Lukachukai Boarding School for implementation of portfolio assessment in all content areas K-12, 1993-1994.
Consultant to the CEE/Sedona Unified School District Partnership for integration of alternative assessment and
reflective practices into the elementary site-based teacher preparation program, 1993, 1994.
Consultant to Texas Tech University education faculty for integrating portfolio assessment and reflection into their teacher preparation programs, 1993.
Facilitator, mini-conference on interdisciplinary education and tracking, Colorado Language Arts Society, Northglenn, Colorado, 1990.
Curriculum/Program Consultant to Sedona Unified Schools for curriculum Planning development for the future alternative high school to be completed in 1994.
Language Arts Curriculum Development Team Chair, Adams Twelve Five Star Schools, Northglenn, Colorado, 1978- 79.
Language Arts Instructional Objectives Task Force Member, Adams Twelve Five Star Schools, Northglenn, Colorado, 1974-75.
Program Evaluator for "Plant the Seed - Learn to Read," Evaluation Citicorp/Citibank Partnership with the Arizona Department of Education's Literacy Initiative for Children, 1993-1994.