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Resource Specialist, STARnet Regions I & III
Sallee Beneke is a Resource Specialist for STARnet Regions I & III (http://www.wiu.edu/starnet/). She trains teachers in Work Sampling Illinois (the state of Illinois's version of the Work Sampling System), the Illinois Early Learning Standards, the practice of observation and documentation, and the Project Approach. Sallee has previously worked as a college instructor, master teacher, prekindergarten at-risk teacher, early childhood special education teacher, child care director, and caregiver.
Ms. Beneke is the author of Rearview Mirror: Reflections on a Preschool Car Project, and co-editor of The Power of Projects: Meeting Contemporary Challenges in Early Childhood Classrooms—Strategies & Solutions, with Dr. Judy Harris Helm. She is co-author of Windows on Learning: Documenting Young Children’s Work, with Judy Harris Helm and Kathy Steinheimer.
Sallee and her husband, Bill, live in Princeton, Illinois, with their four children, Maggie, Alice, Tom, and Abby.
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