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GSE Profiles
 | Christine Cziko
Academic Coordinator
Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
Office: 5611 Tolman Hall
Phone: 642-8486
Email: ccziko@berkeley.edu
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hristine Cziko is the coordinator of the Multicultural Urban Secondary English (MUSE) Master’s and Credential Program. She has taught in public middle and high schools for 25 years. She is a teacher consultant for the Bay Area Writing Project and for the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd. She is particularly interested in supporting secondary students to become engaged, fluent, and competent readers of the variety of texts they must master in order to succeed in higher education and in their lives outside of school. Cziko co-authored the book, Reading for Understanding in Middle and High School Classrooms: A Reading Apprenticeship Guide(1999). Her other writings include "Reading Happens in Your Mind, Not in Your Mouth–Teaching and Learning ‘Academic Literacy’ in an Urban High School," in California English(1998); "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?–Designing a Learning Expedition on the Great Depression," in Journeys through our Classrooms(1996); and "Dialogue Journals: Passing Notes the Academic Way," in Cityscapes: Eight Views from the Urban Classroom(1996). She also has been chosen as a Carnegie Scholar and member of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a major initiative of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.
M.A., Lehman College, City University of New York
Courses and Professional Programs
English (MUSE) Credential/MA Program
English Methods Courses
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Literacy
Multicultural Education
Teacher Education and Certification
Writing and Literature
Last Modified: 9/1/05
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