Her areas of focus include differentiating the curriculum for diverse learners, Socratic seminar training, cognitive coaching, and reading and writing for critical analysis.
She is an Advisor on Exceptional Children for the State Department’s Office of Overseas Schools, and has worked with teachers and administrators in Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Australia. She is presently engaged in a program to support children’s educational opportunities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ms. Letts’ teaching appointments have included public schools in Pennsylvania and New York, and at Pace University and the City University of New York. She and her work have been the subject of articles in the New York Times, Teaching K-8 Magazine, Thinking: the Journal of Philosophy for Children, and on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” She has been a contributor to the Teachers College Record, The Quarterly at UC Berkeley, and Teaching magazine. Audio tapes include”Building Learning Organizations,” and “Getting Started With Portfolios,” from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Her book Creating the Caring Classroom is published by Scholastic Professional Books.