Judy Dick

Senior Content Developer @Benchmark Education Company

New York, NY, US

Create engaging content for K-6 literacy products. Projects include writing and editing nonfiction articles, passages, and books and developing innovative curricula aligned to state and national standards. Wrote articles for Oral Reading Records (Fall 2018); A Rainbow Plate; This Dog Saves Koalas; Get School Smart; Guarding the Emperor; This Tree Peels; Discovering Baby Dinosaurs. Wrote articles for Benchmark Booster e-books (Summer 2020); Carlos Finlay: A Doctor Who Never Gave Up; The Inequality of Pandemics; The CDC: Fighting What We Cannot See.Wrote readers for the Represent! Series (Summer 2022): Dr. Feng Shan Ho: A Hidden Hero (Grade 3); Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Fighting for Fairer Laws (Grade 3); She Rides at Night: The Story of Sybil Luddington, Hero of the Revolution.Edited passages (Vocabulary Practice Texts) for Benchmark Advance.Developed the Media Literacy Handbook, writing lesson plans and worksheets aligned to state standards for media literacy.Developed the Exploring the Arts Teacher Resource (Grades K-5), researching articles related to the arts, writing arts-oriented lesson plans based on article excerpts aligned to state standards for the arts.Represent! Conceptualized, commissioned, and edited leveled readers for the Represent! Series, including-Emma Lazarus: A Writer Who Fought Injustice-Building a New World: Architects Julia Morgan, Norma Merrick Sklarek, and Zaha Hadid-Deer People of the Arctic-Finding Refuge: Fleeing the Nazis and Starting Over-Defying the Nazis: Documenting History-The Courage to Create Music: Performing an Opera Under the Shadow of the Nazis-Ellen Garrison Jackson:

Pratt Institute

AOS

Teachers College of Columbia University

Master in Education

Yeshiva University

BA