FITR was the 2022 Winner of the Diana Hacker Two-Year College Association Outstanding Programs Award

Category: Reaching Across BordersThe Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading […]

Does Reading Matter? FIG Meeting #3
Facilitator: Michelle Gabay,
English (Esther.Gabay@kbcc.cuny.edu)
for the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR)
Does Reading Matter? FIG May 20, 2020 at […]

Does Reading Matter? FIG Meeting #2
Facilitator: Michelle Gabay,
English (Esther.Gabay@kbcc.cuny.edu)
for the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR)
Does Reading Matter? FIG May 6, 2020 at […]

Does Reading Matter? FIG Meeting #1
Facilitator: Michelle Gabay,
English (Esther.Gabay@kbcc.cuny.edu)
for the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR)
Does Reading Matter? FIG April 22, 2020 at […]

Meeting 3: Reading In and Across the Disciplines
Readings:

Laura Davies “Getting to the Root of the Problem: Teaching Reading as a Process in the Sciences“
Chris M. Anson “Writing to Read, Revis […]

Meeting 2: The Reading Brain
Readings:

We’ll be reading chapter 1 and chapter 2 of Maryanne Wolf’s book Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Daniel Willingham’s article “How […]

Meeting 1: Reading and the KCC Context
Join us for our first fall 2019 FIG session on teaching reading, focusing on what reading means at Kingsborough and how we see reading in our own courses.

We will be […]

Stay tuned for information about the upcoming
FITR Symposium!

Past Events

Kingsborough Faculty Research on Reading

Maria Bartolomeo-Maida, “The Use of Learning Journals to Foster Textbook Reading in the Community College Psychology Class”
Gregory Bruno, Annie Del Principe, Emral […]

Resources on reading  available through the KCC library 
 

Visit our wonderful librarians at our KBCC library for further reading on read […]

Two articles in recent news post interesting dilemmas:

New York City graduation rates reached 74.3 percent of city kids who entered high school in 2013 graduated in four years. (Record HIGH!)

80 […]

“I was certified and stamped with a mark of approval, and I couldn’t teach them the one thing they most needed to know how to do–read.”- Amy Treadwell
“A teacher’s control, should be an exercise in purpose, […]

Learners being seen, heard, and challenged to do more; these SHOULD be the foundations of our methods. – Sylvia Beltran

To be changed by ideas is pure pleasure.- bell hooks 
            This is your space.
                             We don’t control it.
                                                We want to learn from […]