Contributors
Reading Plus has been designed and developed in partnership with nationally recognized researchers and authors in the field of reading assessment, reading comprehension, vocabulary, motivation, and visual perception, leveraging the best thinking in literacy.

Dr. P. David Pearson
Professor Emeritus and Former Dean at the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Timothy Rasinski
Professor of Literacy Education at Kent State University

Dr. Alexandra Spichtig
Research advisor for Reading Plus

Dr. Ralph Radach
Professor of Psychology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and Former Associate Professor of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at Florida State University

Lionel Beasley, MA, MFA
Instructor at Champlain College, Zell Fellow at the University of Michigan

Melanie Flores
STEM Lead Coach at Easter Seals North Georgia, TEDxJacksonville speaker, and Former Engineer with Corning, Inc.

Dr. Kristin Gehsmann
Director and Professor, Virginia Tech School of Education

Dr. John Guthrie
Emeritus Faculty Member in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland at College Park

Susan Davies
Senior Teacher in UK Secondary Sector (Ret.), Advisor (AST) for the Teaching of English and Literacy Across the Curriculum

Dr. Elfrieda (Freddy) Hiebert
Chief Executive Officer, TextProject.org

Dr. Jay Samuels
(Ret.) Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota