“Catalyzing Collective Impact” is the first in a series of six guides researched and written for United Way Worldwide. Linda co-conducted extensive interviews with local United Way leaders and then served as the primary writer and editor for the resulting guides.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Linda has taught as one of the instructors for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center’s week-long, intensive workshop on “Critical Writing, Critical Thinking.” She has delivered modules on “Grammar and Mechanics,” “Narration as an Organizational Strategy,” “Improving Sentence and Paragraph Structure,” and “Style: Five Steps to Clearer Sentences.” She has also coached individual writers throughout the week.
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom Teacher Training Kit
Drawing from her work leading K-12 professional development sessions for the MarcoPolo program, Linda helped design, write, and edit this extensive train-the-trainer guide.
ReCharge! Energizing After-School
A collaboration between Action for Healthy Kids, the National Dairy Council, and the National Football League, ReCharge! was a fun-for-kids program designed for students in grades 2 to 6 to learn about and practice good nutrition and physical activity habits. Linda served as a contributing writer to the project. Portions of ReCharge! are available upon request.
Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge
This unique toolkit made it easy for schools to help youth and their families learn to eat healthy and be active every day. Game On! featured four fun, paired activities, or “challenges,” around “Making Better Food Choices” and “Moving More.” Linda served as a contributing writer to the Action for Healthy Kids project. Portions of Game On! are available upon request.
Action for Healthy Kids: Action Planning Guide for State Teams
When Action for Healthy Kids launched in 2002, Linda developed and wrote an Action Planning Guide to help state teams determine their goals and action plans. The result was a comprehensive set of guiding questions and targeted worksheets. Hard copy excerpts are available upon request.
WebQuests
Linda adapted a popular K-12 multimodal teaching technique for use in her university literature courses. These guided explorations of the web allowed students to investigate targeted authors with greater depth. Linda has also developed numerous university-level WebQuests as well as Blackboard and WebCT courses as support for both face-to-face and hybrid courses.