Biography

Lori Jamison Rog is a lifelong teacher and learner. In addition to 17 years as a classroom teacher, she has served as Language Arts Consultant for the Public School Board in Regina, Canada. She was responsible for professional development and curriculum implementation in 64 schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12. Lori's accomplishments as consultant included coordinating the district writing assessments, implementing a primary reading benchmarks assessment, and supporting the implementation of guided reading and six trait writing. Lori also spent two years at the Saskatchewan Department of Education to lead the development of the provincial reading assessment. For a full vita, click here.

Lori has served on the International Reading Association Board of Directors, only the ninth Canadian to be elected to the board in the fifty-year history of the organization, and the only Canadian ever from a K-12 School System. (To the right, Lori is shown with her IRA Board “class”: Donna Ogle, Jeanne Paratore, and Gregg Kurek.) Today, Lori is a private educational consultant who writes professional materials for teachers, consults with school districts and speaks at conferences and other professional development events. She has presented at literacy conferences from New Zealand to Montreal and San Francisco to Dublin.

The mother of one daughter, Lori has also acquired three stepsons and a grandson (who, at not-quite-two, already knows his letters!) from her marriage to Paul Kropp , the author of many books for teens. Three years ago, she re-located from her “little house on the prairie” in Saskatchewan to an 1889 townhouse in downtown Toronto.