Dr. R. Overbeck
Dr. R Overbeck
Our debut author comes to Heroic Teacher Press with quite a pedigree, both in education and in writing. Dr. Overbeck is a veteran educator who has devoted more than three decades to the service of children as a teacher, college professor and administrator. He has worked with thousands of teachers, custodians, secretaries and administrators in schools, large and small, rural and suburban. He knows schools and his writing has vividly captured the drama of the world of education.
For his educational leadership and advocacy for children, Dr. Overbeck has won recognition from state and national organizations. Over the past two decades he has been chosen to serve on numerous state educational committees and as a national consultant to ACT. He has earned professional honors including the National Teacher Leader Award in 2003 from Reading Recovery Council of North America (RRCNA) and the Ohio Teacher-Leader award in 2006 from the Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts (OCTELA).
For the past twenty years, Dr. Overbeck has also been a sought-after speaker, presenting to small school staffs as well as to huge conference halls of attendees. His speaking experiences run the gamut from serving as a keynote speaker at a national conference to an invited guest speaker at state legislative sessions to a participant in a federal policy debate at an educational conference. Over the years, thousands of educators, parents, politicians have been educated, informed and entertained by Dr. Overbeck on such varied topics as politics and education, maximizing student achievement and teachers–the real American heroes.
An accomplished writer, the name “R. Overbeck” can been found in the credits as a contributing author for professional texts, a byline for newspaper articles and a writer of professional journal articles. His words have been published in venues as varied as the International Reading Association Press and the Dayton Daily News and Cleveland Plain Dealer. His most recent article, “What Difference Does Reading Recovery Make–For a District?” is featured in the Spring, 2010 edition of the Journal of Reading Recovery. HTP is thrilled to have obtained the rights to R. Overbeck’s first work of fiction, Leave No Child Behind.
Dr. Overbeck is also a husband of thirty-plus years, a father of three (all grown now), and dotes on his seven beautiful grandchildren who are scattered throughout the country. When he is not leading school districts or on the speaker circuit, he enjoys traveling (mostly to visit the grandkids), jogging (he logs 500 miles a year), golfing (he’s not very good) and, of course, writing. He is currently at work on his next novel, Dangerous Lessons, a mystery about a rogue drug that kills students in a middle school.
