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Leslie Zoroya
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Leslie Zoroya
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When she spoke with edCircuit in 2021, Leslie Zoroya was a Coordinator III for Reading/Language Arts in the Division of Curriculum and Instructional Services at the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE), and co-host with Mara Shinn Smith of the Leading Literacy podcast. She has served on the California State Curriculum and Instruction Steering Committee subcommittee for Language Arts, was lead author of the 2008 Reading/Language Arts Adoption Toolkit, and has led many Distinguished Schools, Gold Ribbon and Program Quality Review teams. The California Department of Education chose her as a Content Review Expert for the 2015 English Language Arts/English Language Development primary adoption. She also spent five years on a literacy project in LACOE's juvenile court schools, bringing reading intervention programs to 17 probation camps, starting dorm, school and classroom libraries, writing curriculum and coaching teachers.

