Mark Weakland is a teacher, reading specialist, literacy coach, author, and musician. As a teacher, coach, and consultant, Mark works with students, teachers, and administrators in a job-embedded classroom-based model to construct and coordinate effective literacy programs, as well as create authentic and extended reading and writing experiences.  As a national presenter, he endeavors to provide teachers with engaging, entertaining, and informative literacy workshops and talks that highlight the most effective and practical learning strategies, instructional routines, and classroom materials.  And as an award-winning author and musician, Mark strives to write books and music that engage and inspire readers, writers, and lovers of music.