CHRISTY CURRAN is an independent literacy consultant working with schools across the United States and around the world -- including, most recently, schools in Cairo, Muscat, Dubai, Monterrey, Chennai, Frankfurt, and Zurich.
She began her career in the Pinellas County (Florida) School District, where she was a fourth-grade teacher, coordinator at Writers Camp (co-sponsored by the Poynter Institute), and a district writing staff developer.
She then joined the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project as a staff developer. She taught at several TCRWP institutes, including the coaching institute, where she helped literacy coaches all around the globe perfect their practice. That work, along with her work in hundreds of schools around New York City, the country and the world, became the inspiration for her blog, www.coachactually.wordpress.com, which she launched last year with her former TCRWP colleague Monique Knight.
As an independent consultant and through the blog, she continues to support coaches, administrators and most importantly, teachers around the world in this extremely important job of lifting educators up and supporting them in the teaching of literacy.
