Susan Ruckdeschel

Susan Ruckdeschel began her career teaching in public schools. With a heavy writing background in place (writing since the age of eight), she took her passion for the muse with her, manifesting in the pioneering of school writing programs, to include the Young Writers' Club at the Glens Falls Middle School in Glens Falls, NY. Her first position in 1990 to 1992 as Reading/English teacher in the Naples Central School District was the first "pilot" for student peer coaching. But it was at the Glens Falls Middle School in Glens Falls, NY where Young Writers' Club and the peer coaching model really took its roots, from 1992 to 1997, where the model quickly grew into classroom use and regional popularity. Susan has organized and maintained the student peer coaching model in Gloversville Central School District, Norfolk Public Schools, Yonkers Public Schools, the City of Beacon through the Howland Library, and other districts throughout the mid-Hudson Valley region. She currently maintains student peer coaching workshops at the Howland Public Library in Beacon, NY, and Butterfield Library in Cold Spring, NY, teaching students in Dutchess, Putnam and Orange counties how to love writing more, write more and better through an empowered process of giving and receiving feedback. In addition, Susan consults around the country with educators to teach them how to teach their students this important process. For more information about Susan and peer coaching programs for students and their teachers, visit www.studentpeercoaching.com . Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers now has an online book companion course, found at www.studentpeercoaching.com/moodle