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About US
Rick McAtee is the President and Chief Academic Officer for Turning a New Page. Rick holds an M.S. degree in Reading and has over 25 years of educational experience, 16 years in the classroom working with students from kindergarten through 8th grade and the past 9 years working directly in the field of Reading. He has worked as a National Reading Consultant and Staff Developer for major publishing companies. His work with large urban school districts to raise scores through teacher training and staff development earned him the recognition to be asked to work with inmates in a Federal Prison. The charge was to take inmates reading at 2nd grade and below and enable them to get a GED. His success with this project was documented in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and an ABC special, Reading: Your ABC’s to Success, hosted by Kelly Ripa. Rick’s work with adult strugglingreaders enabled Turning a New Page to produce materials designed to prevent younger students, who are struggling with reading, from having to face the same bleak future. Rick’s ability to break down the process in a unique way and present the material to teachers in a format and style that is doable in the daily classroom instruction has proven successful across the US and Canada. The research is solid, the test scores impressive, and the testimonials from principals, directors, teachers, students and parents complete the story.
Rick developed Cracking the Code: Marking Letter Patterns in Words, and is now working on Cracking the Code:
Identifying Patterns in the Writing Process. Rick is a children’s author and continues to write books in the Alphabetland Series.
Rosemary Pineau
Rosemary Pineau has a B.Ed with a French major. A teacher for over 25 years, she is presently teaching at Westmorland
Institution (a federal minimum-security prison in New Brunswick, Canada). Rosemary, the co-founder of Turning a New Page, does presentations in the New Brunswick area addressing the educational programs offered in the Maritime institutions. She leads workshops for public school teachers in the area addressing the at risk learner. Rosemary is presently working with
20 public schools in District 2 serving 52 teachers and reaching over 1600 students. She was featured on Canada AM, an
ABC reading special and in several local newspapers.
Rosemary owned and operated a tutoring business for 16 years. During this time, she became adept at identifying and
remediating learning problems encountered by at - risk students. She has been an advocate for programs assisting students
who have difficulty learning in the traditional classroom setting.
Darryl Mrockowski
Darryl Mrockowski is the Vice President of Operations for Turning a New Page. He has been with TNP since 2001.
Previously, he was in Training and Development with the Tohono O'odham Gaming Authority. He has also held positions with
Scholastic Publishing, the Wadsworth Atheneum and TIE Communications.
Darryl has a B.S. degree in business from the University of New Haven in Connecticut, and an A.S. degree from Housatonic
Community College, where he graduated first in his class. He especially enjoyed his work at Thornydale Elementary School,
volunteering his time to help at - risk learners. He was honored by the Marana Foundation in 2004 with their Hero's Award for
his work with these students.
In his spare time time, Darryl enjoys the theater, reading and travel.
Beth Davis
Beth Davis is the Director of Sales for Turning a New Page. She has been a sales professional for the past 25 years, with
both direct and management experience. During her sales career, Beth has worked with both the Business and Consumer
markets. For the past 7 years, she has been involved with Educational Sales. Beth worked for Cambium Learning Technologies.She held the titles of Regional Sales Director as well as Director of Sales Operations.
Based on her previous experience and her focus on ensuring her customers were satisfied with the products and the service
they purchased, Beth was given the responsibilities for managing several of Cambium’s major accounts. Most recently, she
partnered with Los Angeles Unified School District to implement a large purchase of products and services that targeted
struggling learners in Regular as well as Special Ed.
Beth’s focus on struggling readers is directly related to her son’s severe challenges when learning to read. She quickly
discovered that classroom teachers do not always have the time and often may not have the resources to assist individual
students who are struggling to read. Her son went on to graduate high school and college, and now runs his own business.
Beth believes that all students have the capacity to learn to read with the right intervention tools.
Beth earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Science at California State University at Northridge.
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