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Susan Goetz-Haver

Director, Reading and Literacy Programs

Supervised Fieldwork Advisor, Course Instructor

Reading and Literacy Program

Academic Interests

Children and poetry Curriculum development Drama and literacy connections Elementary and middle school literacy Supporting new teachers in urban schools, especially in crossing boundaries of race and class Teacher development

Recent Courses Taught

Some of the Values that Shape My Work

We need to work very hard to ensure that learners, both child and adult, get the best of our thinking, our care and our practice. This involves continued reflection to help ourselves understand real constraints that must be addressed, while questioning those that hold power only because they have not been challenged. We must learn to be bold, and be humble – to act, without falling in so in love with our ideas that we stop paying attention to the present.  The arts offer a unique opportunity to imagine new ways of knowing and being. When we rest too comfortably in what we know, when we forget how, or why, to play, we stop learning. This is true for the child “retelling” a story, the graduate student grappling with a new paradigm, the teacher planning a lesson, and the teacher educator integrating years of experience with new technologies and assumptions.

Work with Families, Children, Schools, and Communities

NYC public school teacher, general and special ed; literacy specialist; poet; staff developer; family-school coordinator.

Selected Professional Development Work

Literacy consultant to schools in New York City Districts 2, 3, 4 ,5, 10,13,19, Harlem Link Charter School, and independent schools in New York and New Jersey; Principal’s Coach, District 19

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., New York University
  • Ed.M., Bank Street College of Education
  • M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Contact me:

(212) 875-4692 sgoetz-haver@bankstreet.edu
610 W 112Th St # 810
New York, NY 10025-1898