Houston-area Web site clicks globally: Neuhaus finds reading teachers worldwide want information and tools
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[November 09, 2009]

Houston-area Web site clicks globally: Neuhaus finds reading teachers worldwide want information and tools

Nov 09, 2009 (Houston Chronicle - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- When Houston's Neuhaus Education Center launched a Web site to help reading teachers this fall, the Houston-based nonprofit never expected to generate most of its hits from India, Singapore and other countries.



It just goes to show, organizers said, that reading teachers around the world are hungry for more information on how to be effective instructors.

Now that Neuhaus' site, www.readingteachersnetwork.org, is up and running, educators hope to generate at least 30,000 hits a month. They've posted videos, lesson plans and research to aid teachers -- and even parents. The phonics-based lessons are targeted to beginning and struggling readers.



"There's nothing more discouraging than for a teacher to have a child who doesn't get it and not to have the tools to help make that light bulb go off," said Russanne Kelley, president of Neuhaus, a nonprofit center that opened in 1980 to help improve literacy.

Networking opportunity The online site was created, in part, to give teachers a chance to network with one another -- in Houston and around the world. Teaching, Kelley said, is an extremely isolated profession.

Officials at Neuhaus, which saw a 72 percent increase in participation in online classes this year, said making more content available on the Web is critical to today's teachers, who are pressed for time and often more comfortable with technology.

Its new site for reading teachers was funded by $615,000 in grants and donations from across Texas.

For more information, visit www.readingteachersnetwork.org.

jennifer.radcliffe@chron.com To see more of the Houston Chronicle, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.HoustonChronicle.com. Copyright (c) 2009, Houston Chronicle Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.

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