Director, Reading and Dropout Prevention Institute; Executive Director, The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk; Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Education; Professor, Department of Special Education; Principal Investigator, i-SMART: Intervention to Support Mindsets and Reading Together; The University of Texas at Austin; Recipient of several awards, including the “Distinguished Faculty and Research” Award, the Jeannette E. Fleischner Award for “Outstanding Contributions in the Field of LD” from the CEC; the AERA SIG “Distinguished Researcher” Award, and College of Education Dean’s “Distinguished Research” Award; Co-Author, Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning and Behavior Disabilities (2024, 11^th Edition) and Teaching Students Who Are Exceptional, Diverse, and At Risk in the General Educational Classroom (2023, 8^th Edition), Literacy Foundations for English Learners: A Comprehensive Guide to Evidence-Based Instruction (2020), and Effective Instruction for Middle School Students With Reading Difficulties: The Reading Teacher's Sourcebook (2012)