Release Date: 11/21/2011 It was mid-September, and the Arkansas
Association of Teacher Educators would soon be coming to the
Ozarks campus for their fall conference. Janie Chappell thought
to herself, "We need some bulletin boards!" Making the bulletin
boards would be a quick, simple project for Dr. McManus'
"Developing Content Readers" class - or so Chappell thought. But
when the students in the class - Laura Duffey, Tadera Garland,
Katrina Mariswamy, Kelsey Mefford, Danessa Stewart, and Alison
Villines - started working on the bulletin boards, they realized
this was an opportunity to turn that simple project into
something much more comprehensive. While creating their
"Readers' Workshop for Dummies" bulletin board, the students in
Dr. McManus' class came up with the idea for their "Implementing
a Reading Workshop" book. "Alison came up with the idea that we
make our bulletin board look like a 'For Dummies' book cover,"
Duffey said. "We decided that was a good idea and created a
Readers' Workshop for Dummies