Professor of Literacy, Educational Leadership, San Diego State University; Teacher, Co-Founder, Health Sciences High & Middle College; Recipient, Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, American Association of State Colleges and Universities; Co-Author, Teaching Reading: A Playbook for Developing Skilled Readers Through Word Recognition and Language Comprehension (2022), Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility (2021), Comprehension [Grades K-12]: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading (2020), and This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6 (2019)