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Rosemary Cabe
Academic Coordinator, M.A. (California State College, Los Angeles)
Emphasis:
Research Interests:
Professional Development; English Language Learners; Equity Issues in Education
Biography:
Rosemary Cabe worked as a classroom teacher for over thirty years; the last eighteen years at Lompoc Valley Middle School in the Lompoc Unified School District. In that capacity she taught students in self-contained Special Day Classes for eight years and Regular Ed. Core Classes in Language Arts and Social Studies for ten years. During this time, Ms. Cabe was involved as a teacher-leader in the South Coast Writing Project, presenting staff development workshop series in Santa Barbara County as well as serving as the Director of SCWriP’s Summer Open Program for Teachers for three summers. In addition she served as Co-Director of a SCWriP Institute in the Teaching of Literature funded by the US Department of Defense for teachers from Department of Defense Dependent Schools in Europe and the Middle East.
For the past ten years Ms. Cabe has served as a SCWriP Co-director, with a primary focus on coordinating staff development programs. She began work the first five years on a buy-out contract from her school district, and as a UCSB employee for the last five years. In that capacity she developed the IIMPaC model for school-site professional development, conducted the first pilot projects employing the model in her own school district, and has been the coordinator of all subsequent programs adapting the model since that time. For two years, Ms. Cabe served as the leader of a team of seven SCWriP middle school teachers who were funded by the UC Literacy Consortium (based at UC Berkeley) to function as a study group for the purpose of familiarizing themselves with recent developments in genre theory (including the work based on Halliday’s functional systemic linguistics) and then with developing lessons and instructional approaches to teaching academic reading and writing in ways that are informed by contemporary genre theory. Current inquiry group work is focused on the coordination of a group of SCWriP teachers who are investigating questions of racism, social justice and educational equity in literacy education.
In November and December of 2004, at the invitation of the National Writing Project and the government of Malta, Ms. Cabe served as Director of a month long institute on the teaching of writing for 25 teacher leaders representing schools at all levels in the nation of Malta. Currently she conducts seminars on in-service programming on behalf of the National Writing Project for new directors from National Writing Project sites around the country. Her NWP work also includes involvement in the Local Sites Research Initiative sponsored by NWP, and serving as a member of the NWP team reviewing funding applications and funding reports from National Writing Project sites at some 180 college campuses spread out over the 50 states.
Recent Publications:
Whitney, A., Blau, S., Brown, A., Cabe, R., Dewar, T., Levin, J., Macias, R., & Rogers, P. Beyond Strategies: Teacher Practice, Writing Process, and the Influence of Inquiry. English Education, 40(3), 201-229. 2008. [Journal Article]
Blau, S., Cabe, R., & Whitney, A. Evaluating IIMPaC: Teacher and Student Outcomes Through a Professional Development Program in the Teaching of Writing. National Writing Project (Local Sites Research Initiative Cohort II). 2006. [Research Report]
Blau, S., Cabe, R., Rayyes, N., & Whitney, A. Evaluating IIMPaC: Teacher and Student Outcomes Through a Professional Development Program in the Teaching of Writing. National Writing Project (Local Sites Research Initiative Cohort I). 2005. [Research Report]
