Dr. Ken Cutts
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Stout
140E Voc Rehab Bldg
Menomonie, WI 54751
Phone: (319) 277-4417
E-Mail: cuttsk@uwstout.edu
Dr. Ken Cutts teaches Reading Strategies for the Content Areas and Seminar: Reading in the Content Areas K-12 .
Ken Cutts has a PhD. degree in Secondary Reading from the University of Iowa. For the past twenty-six years, he has worked full-time in the professional development of teachers as the Reading Language Arts Consultant for an Area Education Agency service center. Prior to that he taught secondary reading in Donnelson and Ottumwa, Iowa.
His professional development experience includes:
- Providing leadership to 30 school districts in K-12 reading and writing curriculum
- Collaborating with Iowa Dept. of Education on state and federal literacy initiatives
- Presenting to classroom teachers and administrators: Text Selection Criteria; Child & Adolescent Literature Updates; Best Practices in Literacy Instruction; Assessment Strategies
- Staff development courses in reading and literacy
- Developing and administering $250K private sector grant (George Carver Foundation, Muscatine, Iowa ) to provide content reading strategies training for 24 secondary teacher/administrator teams (165 educators) serving 1,300 middle and high school teachers
- F.I.N.E. Award (First in the Nation): training alternative high school staff Waterloo, Iowa in content reading resulting in award for impressive test score gains
Ken's extensive experience includes K-12 staff development focused on effective instructional strategies in the following areas: vocabulary, teaching reading inference skills, summarizing skills, visualizing content material, developing effective study guides, use of nonfiction trade books in the content classroom, special considerations for male readers, and student self questioning strategies.
Enjoy Ken's sense of humor and wealth of strategies for classroom teachers by participating in this online course.
Ken and his wife, Patty, live in Cedar Falls, Iowa where Ken enjoys community service working with the local nature center and the county conservation board; canoeing, fishing, and reading history.
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