Ann M. Johns
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	Consulting & Service Consulting and service of several types have been central to my professional life; and they have continued and intensified after my full retirement from San Diego State. Over the years, I have been invited to consult or teach overseas as well as present plenaries and keynotes in both the United States and abroad. My overseas work has included program evaluation (e.g., Pakistan , 1987; Algeria , 1991; Turkey, 2004), teaching classes (e.g., Spain , 1992; Lebanon , 2002), conducting reading and writing pedagogy workshops for teachers at a variety of academic levels (e.g., France, 1994; Russia, 1996), working with university faculty on publishing internationally (Turkey, 2004; Mexico, 2009; South Africa, 2009), and presenting plenaries at international conferences (e.g., China , 1999; Hungary , 2002, South Africa , 2005). In the United States, I have taught at three TESOL Summer Institutes (Corvallis, Oregon; Flagstaff, Arizona; San Francisco, California), and I have been invited to speak at a number of state and regional conferences. I also serve on several journal editorial boards (see my CV). I continue to give conference plenaries and keynotes (e.g., Lebanon, 2003, South Africa, 2005, American Association of Applied Linguistics, 2007; CATESOL Regional, 2008; Symposium on Second Language Writing, 2009, and conduct workshops (e.g., Turkey, 2004 and 2006, Jordan and the West Bank, 2006, Mexico, 2005, 2007, 2009), but I have also begun to work intensively with secondary schools in my own country, particularly those with high populations of linguistically-diverse students. During the 2003-2004 academic year, for example, I interviewed teachers and librarians in the Grossmont and Sweetwater Union High School Districts in San Diego County. From their contributions and other sources, I developed a Manual for Student Research, distributed by the San Diego State University College Readiness Program. In 2005, I began to craft a reading, writing, and research curriculum, AVID College Readiness: Working with Sources (ACR) for the AVID Program, a broadly focused initiative designed for highly-motivated, first generation secondary students who plan to attend university (See the “Domestic” link.). The completed program was presented at the AVID California Conference in January, 2009 (See the AVID College Readiness Power Point.) During 2009-2010, I will be revising the AVID curriculum for post-secondary students. What does one do in retirement? Freed from institutional politics and responsibilities, I am able to devote myself to international projects, such as my Senior Fulbrights at the University of Limpopo, South Africa (May/June, 2007) and Antonine University, Lebanon (June, 2009). There is also time for local educational projects, such as the AVID curricula or the upgrading of the "remedial" writing program at San Diego State. Retirement frees us to focus on what's important, on how we can use our talents in attempting to make small, but (one hopes) significant contributions to our communities and the world. Home | Professional Activities | Teaching | Consulting & Service | Suggested Reading