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Dr. Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert is President and CEO of TextProject, a nonprofit that provides resources to support higher reading levels. She is also a research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Hiebert has worked in the field of early reading acquisition for 45 years, first as a teacher’s aide and teacher of primary-level students in California and, subsequently, as a teacher and researcher. Her research addresses how fluency, vocabulary, and knowledge can be fostered through appropriate texts.
Dr. Ernest Morrell is the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education as well as the Director of the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is also Director of Teachers College’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) and the past President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Dr. Morrell received recognition for being one of the top 100 university-based education scholars in the 2016 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Ranking.
Dr. Sharon Vaughn is the Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Education and Executive Director of the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin. With more than 30 years of experience in teacher education, Dr. Vaughn is a prolific author and researcher who has conducted more than 60 experimental studies in school settings, written over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals (such as the Journal of Educational Psychology, Elementary School Journal, and Reading Research Quarterly), and published more than 50 intervention studies.
Dr. Young-Suk Kim is a professor and Senior Associate Dean at the School of Education, University of California, Irvine. Dr. Kim’s extensive research encompasses various aspects of literacy, including written composition, reading comprehension, reading fluency, oral language, listening comprehension, dyslexia, higher-order cognitive skills, and reading-writing relations. Her research has received over $60 million in grants from the Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Science Foundation.