Rebecca Sitton and her associates conduct over 150 staff development workshops a year throughout the United States and Canada to help teachers make the SOURCEBOOK Series the centerpiece of their spelling curriculum.
A Certified Trainer for Rebecca Sitton's SOURCEBOOK Series since 1995, Christy Fong is a highly accomplished classroom teacher. Her classroom experience spans several years at various grade levels in both regular and special education. The foundation for her career was initiated with a B.S. in Elementary Education from Weber State University with a Certificate in Learning Disabilities, followed by several years of classroom teaching while she completed her M.Ed. at Utah State University.
Christy considers herself a teacher, but her students are now other educators, so she is best described as an Educational Consultant. Once an outstanding SOURCEBOOK Series user in her own classroom, Christy now trains thousands of educators every year throughout the United States and Canada to use the options within Rebecca Sitton's methodology to bring spelling and language literacy to their students.
Christy's own experience becoming proficient with the SOURCEBOOK Series is invaluable to teachers who are just beginning to implement the ideas and need the foundation—as well as the step-by-step, how-to suggestions—to make them feel comfortable as new ground is forged. Her competence with the materials is also appreciated by the most experienced SOURCEBOOK users who are seeking those special ideas to refine and recharge their spelling instruction in the most productive ways. Christy also facilitates Expansion Seminars for seasoned SOURCEBOOK users and gets rave reviews for her extensive variety of ideas shared in these workshops.
A Certified Trainer for Rebecca Sitton's Sourcebook Series, Teresa Therriault has experience teaching in both elementary and middle school settings as a classroom, talented and gifted, special education, and Title 1 teacher. Then, as her school district's Language Arts Specialist, Teresa became a teacher of teachers, providing staff development and literacy coaching. Now, Teresa is a national Literacy Consultant. In addition to her training seminars for the Sitton materials, she supports literacy through staff development work within the communications curriculum throughout the United States and Canada.
Teresa has a rich educational background with degrees in Psychology from the University of Southern Oregon and in Elementary Education from the University of Southern Colorado. She also holds a Master's Degree in Special Education with a Reading Endorsement from Adams State University.
Although Teresa's educational background is strong, it's her years of classroom experience applying the practices that engage students to become active, successful learners that she considers the bedrock of her strength as a staff development trainer. Teresa brings this outlook to her seminars for the SOURCEBOOK Series as she engages teachers to become confident professionals using the commonsense methodology time-effectively in their own classroom.
Teresa still remembers her first class as they lined up to leave on the last day of school, hardly believing that an entire school year had gone by. Now, years later, Teresa has built a wealth of knowledge based on experiences with students, extensive post-graduate college work, ongoing personal and professional development opportunities, multiple positions of leadership in various school districts, and her literacy consulting work across the country.
A Certified Trainer for Rebecca Sitton's Sourcebook Series, Tina Valtierra is a lively, innovative, and immensely accomplished educator. Currently, she is a Doctoral Student in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Denver.
In addition to her Sitton Sourcebook staff development consulting, Tina works at the university level in several roles. She is a professor in the Teacher Preparation Program at Colorado's Adams State College. She supervises student teachers at Metropolitan State College in Denver. She helps coordinate and teach Online Graduate Studies for Master Degree candidates in Reading and/or Education at Grand Canyon University. Through the University of Denver, she is engaged in the School/University Partnership Program.
Earlier on, Tina was a classroom teacher, literacy coach, reading clinician, and teacher trainer in the Denver Public Schools.
As an elementary teacher, Tina worked mainly with students who faced multiple obstacles--behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, emotional problems--and an abundance of English Language Learners. She was their mentor, but--more accurately, Tina says--these students were her mentors, helping her discover new and better ways to support their path to literacy.
Her M.A. is in Elementary Reading, Reading Teacher Endorsement, Magna Cum Laude from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. Her B.A. is in Sociology and French, with Elementary Education Certification.
Tina's passion for her profession is something teachers in her Sourcebook trainings note. She is a fast-paced, organized presenter who guides her groups toward quick proficiency with the materials. Teachers appreciate her enthusiasm, her abundance of knowledge, and the confidence she gives them to use their Sourcebooks in a way that best meets their students' needs.
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