Dr. Kylene Beers is currently an
international literacy consultant and previously was a Senior Reading
Researcher at the Comer School Development Program at Yale University. She
began her career as a middle school language arts teacher outside of Houston,
TX. She is the author or co-author of many best-selling books including When
Kids Can’t Read/What Teachers Can Do; Forged by Reading; Disrupting Thinking; Reading Nonfiction; and Notice and Note – Strategies for Close Reading. Disrupting Thinking, which she co-authored with Robert Probst,
is a 2018 recipient of the Teachers Choice Awards.
Kylene has served on committees with
the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of
English and is an often-invited keynote speaker to national and state
conventions. She has served as president of the National Council of Teachers of
English and is currently serving as a board member for the international LitWorld
Foundation. She is a recipient of the NCTE Leadership Award and the NCTE Middle
Grades Outstanding Teacher award.
Most
importantly, Kylene is a teacher who continues to work in classrooms today
across the nation as she works shoulder-to-shoulder with teachers and students.
When not on an airplane, Kylene lives on her ranch with her husband, Brad, and
their fabulous dog, Coda, in central Texas.
