Sue Dickson, a graduate of James Madison University, was awarded their Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in 1996. She is the recipient of the George Washington Teacher's Medal from Freedom's Foundation, and her curriculum Sing, Spell, Read & Write, published by Pearson Learning, won the Teachers' Choice Award from Learning Magazine in 2005. In 2007, The National Right to Read Foundation awarded Sue their Patrick Groff Lifetime Achievement Award.
A former council president of both the International Reading Association and Delta Kappa Gamma International Honor Society for Women Educators, Sue is also listed in "Who's Who in American Education," "Who's Who of American Women," and "Who's Who in America."
Educator Sue Dickson's musical talent, combined with her twenty-seven years in the classroom, brought about other award-winning, musically based curriculum programs. Besides Sing, Spell, Read & Write, Sue has produced Winning,The Race To Independent Reading (for troubled readers grades 4 & up), Canta, Deletrea, Lee, & Escribe, a musically based Spanish Language literacy program, also published by Pearson Learning, and other songs and musical programs that make learning fun: The Song of America's Freedoms, The Song of the US Presidents, Musical Math Facts I for addition and subtraction, and Musical Math Facts II for multiplication and division . Her new online website, www.SueDickson.com , continues her passion to make learning more fun with her sing-along formats which can be downloaded.
Presently living in Safety Harbor, Florida near her three children and seven grandchildren, Sue enjoys her volunteer work playing jazz piano for retirement homes and also playing for school assembly programs where her daughter teaches. She continues producing educational songs at the request of her teacher daughter. The Inventors and Inventions Song and The Sight Words Song in DVD format are available to download at www.SueDickson.com
