Presents numerous suggestions for effective and efficient meetings, including: deciding on the meeting's purpose and outcome; preparing and sending out an agenda before the meeting; starting meetings on time; using a variety of strategies for reaching decisions and solving problems; and compiling and distributing minutes as soon as possible. (RS)

Advises reading professionals on how to approach legal testimony as an expert witness. (AEA)

Reflects on and evaluates the author's past year as a reading resource consultant in a program that has moved from a pullout reading program to a mainstreaming one. (SR)

Describes how one reading consultant allocated time to meet the major responsibilities outlined in a job description. (RB)

Suggests standards for hiring reading specialists. (MKM)

Reports on a survey in which people who responded as reading specialists actually performed many different jobs. (MKM)

Gives a list of guidelines for reading specialists to use in evaluating content area textbooks. (MKM)

Discusses the role of reading specialists in remediating reading difficulties in mainstreamed classrooms. Describes meeting students' needs, planning, and assessment in a mainstreaming with consultation model which seems to be effective. (SR)

Presents results of a questionnaire profiling duties and concerns of state and provincial reading consultants in the United States and Canada. (TO)

Offers two scenarios which helped change the author's practice as a reading coordinator and helped her teachers explore personal research questions. (MG)

Presents a useful instrument which determines what administrators and teachers expect of reading specialists. (RB)

Presents the findings of a study of the attitudes of classroom teachers toward reading consultants. (DD)

Suggests free or inexpensive resources available for inservice reading programs. (DD)

Describes staff development and program development possibilities for secondary remedial reading programs. (MKM)

Describes an instrument, the College Reading Specialist Competency Checklist, that assesses the competencies of reading and study skills specialists. (HOD)