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Brown-Sandberg Delivers paper overseas

Dr. Susan Brown-Sandberg, from Lake Madison, South Dakota, and an Associate Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Oneonta, recently delivered a paper titled: "Transcending Geographical and Cultural Barriers: From The Little House to the Global Schoolhouse" at the International Reading Association's 18th World Congress on Reading in Auckland, New Zealand, July 11-14. Dr. Brown-Sandberg presented with two colleagues: Dr. Deanna Gilkerson, Professor of Early Childhood and Human Development at South Dakota State University (SDSU), Brookings, and LaValla Hollow (Cin-pi-wi), a student in education at SDSU, from the Standing Rock Indian Nation. LaValla Hollow's participation at the World Congress was sponsored by the SDSU 2+2+2 Native American Education Collaboration, which includes high schools, tribal colleges, and SDSU. 

The World Congress on Reading, which is held in a different country every two years, attracts educators from around the globe. Congress sessions this year related to literacy assessment issues, children's literature, parent involvement, research, bilingual education, technology integration, and symposia on the Reading Recovery Program, an early reading intervention program developed in New Zealand for readers at risk, and offered in the USA in every state but Delaware and in many countries world-wide. 

In addition, Dr. Brown-Sandberg and Dr. Philip Sandberg, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at DSU, visited schools and developed contacts in the New Zealand educational system for on-line collaborations between New Zealand schools and the schools of the DIAL Consortium, directed by Russell Martin, the Director of the Business and Education Institute at DSU.