Joan Sedita is a current board member of Learning Disabilities Worldwide. She
is the director of Sedita Learning Strategies in Boxford, MA, a private
consulting and teacher training service. Joan is an experienced educator,
nationally recognized speaker and teacher trainer. She has worked for
over 30 years in the education field and has presented to thousands of
teachers, parents, and related professionals at schools, colleges, clinics,
and professional organizations throughout the United States. Joan specializes
in developing curriculum, teaching materials, and professional development
in the following areas: reading, language arts, writing, study skills,
and learning disabilities.
Joan worked at the Landmark School in Massachusetts for 23 years as a teacher, diagnostician, supervisor of tutorials, and high school principal. Landmark is an internationally recognized school for students with learning disabilities. She was also the founder and director of the Landmark College Preparation Program, and director of the Landmark Outreach Teacher Training Program.
Joan was one of three Lead Trainers in Massachusetts for the Reading First Initiative, a program of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. She is also a national LETRS trainer (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling). Additional experience includes work with Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston; The Learning Disabilities Network; WGBH/All Kinds of Minds "Developing Minds" video series, Kurzweil Education Group (software development); Brownsville READS Task Force, TX; and the Middle/High School Reading Task Force for the Massachusetts Department of Education. Joan is also an adjunct instructor at Fitchburg State College.
Joan has authored a number of books and articles, including The Key Three Routine: Comprehension Strategy Instruction, Study Skills: A Teaching Guide ( 2nd edition, 2001), Active Learning and Study Strategies Using Kurzweil 3000 (2003), and Writing: The Road to Reading Comprehension, Module 11 of the LETRS reading training series (2004). She received her Masters in Reading Education from Harvard University in 1980, and her B.A. from Boston College in 1975.
For further information about Joan and Sedita Learning
Strategies, visit the website www.seditalearning.com
