Achieving Excellence in Preschool Literacy Instruction

Mike A. Assel, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Associate Director of the Dan L. Duncan Children's Neurodevelopmental Clinic.

April Bedford, PhD, is Associate Professor of Elementary and Literacy Education at the University of New Orleans, where she is also Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Tanis Bryan, PhD, is Codirector of the Southwest Institute for Families and Children, Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Martha Jane Buell, PhD, is Professor of Individual and Family Studies at the University of Delaware.

Karen Burstein, PhD, is Director of the Southwest Institute for Families and Children, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Sonia Q. Cabell, MEd, is a doctoral student in Reading Education at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia.

Renée Casbergue, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Education Theory, Policy, and Practice at Louisiana State University.

James F. Christie, PhD, is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University.

David K. Dickinson, EdD, is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Peabody School of Education, Vanderbilt University.

Virginia Dubasik, MEd, MS, CCC-SLP, is a doctoral student in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University.

Cevriye Ergul, MA, is a doctoral student at Arizona State University.

Dale C. Farran, PhD, is Professor in the Departments of Teaching and Learning and Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.

Shelley Gray, PhD, CCC-SLP, is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University.

Bridget K. Hamre, PhD, is Research Scientist at the University of Virginia's Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning.

Myae Han, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Individual and Family Studies at the University of Delaware.

Laura M. Justice, PhD, is Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University

Susan H. Landry, PhD, is Michael Matthew Knight Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where she is also Chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics and Director of the Children's Learning Institute.

Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch, PhD, is IES Research Fellow in Risk and Prevention at the University of Virginia in the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning.

Andrew J. Mashburn, PhD, is Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia.

Lea M. McGee, PhD, is the Marie C. Clay Professor of Reading Recovery and Early Literacy at The Ohio State University.

Carla K. Meyer, MS, is a doctoral student at the University of Delaware.

Khara L. Pence, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia in the Curry School of Education and the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning.

Robert C. Pianta, PhD, is the Novartis U.S. Foundation Professor in the School of Education and Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he also directs the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning.

Yaacov Petscher, MS, is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology at Florida State University and is Director of Research at the Florida Center for Reading Research.

Terri Purcell, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Cleveland State University.

Craig T. Ramey, PhD, is Director of the Center on Health and Education at Georgetown University.

Sharon Landesman Ramey, PhD, is Director of the Center on Health and Education at Georgetown University.

M. Adelaida Restrepo, PhD, CCC-SLP, is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University.

Catherine A. Rosemary, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Allied Studies at John Carroll University.

Kathleen A. Roskos, PhD, is on the faculty of John Carroll University.

Christopher Schatschneider, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University and a faculty member of the Florida Center for Reading Research.

Judith A. Schickedanz, PhD, is Professor of Education in the Department of Literacy and Language, Counseling, and Development at Boston University.

Paul R. Swank, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Learning Institute.

Carol Vukelich, PhD, is L. Sandra and Bruce L. Hammonds Professor in Teacher Education and Director of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education at the University of Delaware.

Sharon Walpole, PhD, is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Delaware.

Betsy G. Watson, MEd, is a doctoral student in reading education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.

Kellee M. Williams, MPH, is a doctoral student in Public Health at Florida State University and is a researcher at the Florida Center for Reading Research.