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 Pat Alexander- Jean Mullin Professor of Literacy, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland.Expertise - Text-Based Learning; Domain-Specific Learning; Epistemic Beliefs; The Interplay of Knowledge, Strategies, and Motivation in Academic Development.
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A former middle-school teacher, Alexander has published over 200 articles, books, or chapters in the area of learning and instruction. Her many honors include the 2001 Oscar S. Causey Award from the National Reading Conference for outstanding contributions to literacy research, the 2007 Sylvia Scribner Award from Division C (Learning and Instruction) of the American Educational Research Association, and recently she was named one of the 10 most productive scholars in Educational Psychology. She has also received various national, university, and college awards for teaching.
 Marilyn Chambliss - associate professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of MarylandExpertise - how readers comprehend exposition in social studies and science (particularly argument and explanation), how different text features influence the comprehension of children, how to develop comprehensible textbook materials, and how to develop powerful comprehension instruction.
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Prof. Chambliss is an educational psychologist who has written extensively about reading.
Before coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Chambliss was the project director of the Text Analysis Project at Stanford University. She is a former middle school reading teacher. Linda Coleman - associate professor of English language and literature, and former director of the Freshman Writing Program, University of Maryland Expertise - writing in college; the language of advertising; language and politics; the history and structure of English, discourse analysis, slang, language and politics.
Credentials - director, Freshman Writing Program from 1993 to 2005; the author of numerous articles and book chapters.
Mariam Jean Dreher - professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland and member of the National Reading Research Center.Expertise - what works to help students become great readers in elementary school and ways to help them understand and write about what they have read.
Credentials - a long-time elementary school and reading teacher before moving to higher education, Prof. Dreher has an abiding interest in finding ways to help students become skilled readers and do a better job of understanding what they are reading. She has written extensively about the subject and is currently involved in research that looks at ways to balance learning to read with reading for learning. She is the co-editor of Engaging Young Readers: Promoting Achievement and Motivation (Guilford Press). In January, 2006 she won the prestigious
Fulbright Senior Specialist in Education award, conducting research at the
University of Oulu in Finland. 
John Guthrie - professor emeritus, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland.Expertise - how knowledge is acquired, the motivational and educational aspects of learning and reading; the psychology of engagement in learning and development.
Credentials - principal investigator reseaching ways to increase reading comprehension under a federal interagency grant. The Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) program combines hands-on science and reading instruction and helps motivate students to do a better job of retaining what they are learning. Designed for grades 3-8, it has already shown success as a model that can be widely used by teachers in a classroom.
Jennifer Turner - assistant professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland.Expertise - reading education; literacy - especially in urban schools; issues of social justice within reading education; Dr. Seuss.
Credentials - author of numerous articles including Making Kids Winners: New Perspectives In Literacy From Urban Elementary School Principals.
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