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past member of the board of the Society for Scientific Study of Reading and the board of directors for American
Educational Research Association, Division C. Dr. Cunningham has published over 35 articles in journals such
as Development Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, Reading and Writing,and The American
Educator.Dr. Cunningham is a former classroom teacher and reading resource specialist, having taught pre-
school and kindergarten through third grade for 10 years. She serves on numerous state and national committees
surrounding literacy development and instruction such as the U.S. Department of Education Reading First expert
panel.
Alma Flor Ada, Ph.D. Dr. Ada is the director of the Center for Multicultural Literature for Children and
Young Adults at the University of San Francisco, where she has been a professor since 1976. She is an expert on
bilingual education and was the founder and first editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Association for
Bilingual Education,where she has served on the advisory board for over 25 years. Dr. Ada is the author of
numerous award-winning English and Spanish children’s books and English and Spanish reading programs.
Additionally, she has shared her expertise on issues of transformative education, multicultural and multilingual
education, home school interaction and early childhood education in Central and South America, the Caribbean,
Europe, New Zealand, Micronesia and in the United States and Canada.
Karen Fuson, Ph.D. Dr. Fuson is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Education and Social Policy at
Northwestern University. She is a mathematics educator and cognitive scientist whose work focuses on
children’s mathematical understanding and the classroom conditions that can facilitate such understanding. Her
past work has contributed to the understanding of children’s counting and understanding of whole number,
fraction, and decimal computation. Dr. Fuson is currently a contributing editor of the Journal of Mathematical
Behavior and has served as an editorial board member of Mathematical Cognition, Mathematical Thinking and
Learning, and the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education.She has reviewed proposals for the National
Science Foundation since 1978. Dr. Fuson served on the recent Mathematics Learning Committee of the National
Research Council. She has published over 100 articles in books, handbooks, encyclopedias, and journals such as
Cognition and Instruction, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,
Elementary School Journal, Cognitive Psycholog, and Child Development.
Ruth Nathan, Ph.D.Since June 2003, LeapFrog has employed Dr. Nathan as its Executive Educational
Advisor. In addition, Dr. Nathan is a lead instructor at the University of California, Berkeley Extension Reading
Certificate Program. Dr. Nathan has co-authored many books on literacy, including: Beginnings of Writing;
Classroom Strategies That Work; Writers in the Classroom; The Great Source Reading Daybooks and Reading
Source Books for third through fifth grades; and three writing handbooks, Writers Express, Write On Track, and
Write Away.Additionally, she has published more than ten articles in journals such as Reading Research
Quarterly, Child Development and Language Arts. Dr. Nathan has taught in the public school system over a
thirty year period, alternating her full-time, classroom experience with university professorships and district
consulting.
Scott G. Paris, Ph.D.Dr. Paris is a professor in the School of Education and professor and Chair of the
Graduate Program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He was a founding member
of the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement and served on the board of directors of the
National Reading Conference. He is on the editorial boards of the Educational Psychologist, Cognition and
Instruction and Reading Research Quarterly,and he has previously served on the editorial boards of 11 other
journals. Dr. Paris is a frequent contributor to scholarly publications in the field of education and developmental
psychology. He has published 11 books, 50 chapters, and more than 75 articles in journals such as the Journal of
Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Reading Research Quarterly and
Educational Psychologist.
P. David Pearson, Ph.D.Dr. Pearson is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of
California, Berkeley and was previously the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Education in the College
of Education and the Co-Director of the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement at Michigan
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