from The McEwan-Adkins Group
About Elaine
Elaine K. McEwan is an educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades PreK-6.
A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators to include Literacy Look-Fors: An Observation Protocol to Guide K-6 Classroom Walkthroughs; 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students; and Teach Them All to Read.
Elaine was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991.
She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and a master's degree in library science and a doctorate in educational administration from Northern Illinois University.
McEwan lives with her husband and business partner, E. Raymond Adkins, in Oro Valley, Arizona. Between them, Elaine and Ray have five children, fifteen grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.