What’s Inside: In this podcast, we chat with Dr. Jade Wexler, Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Maryland, College Park about her research on improving co-teaching outcomes through professional development in comprehension instruction strategies delivered during content-area instruction. We delve specifically into her article, Improving Instruction in Co-Taught Classrooms to Support Reading Comprehension.

Dr. Wexler has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, is the co-author of three books focused on adolescent literacy, and serves on several editorial boards such as Reading Research Quarterly, Learning Disability Quarterly, and Teaching Exceptional Children. 

She is also the co-director of the Language and Literacy Research Center at the University of  Maryland which aims to promote collaborative research in literacy and language among students and researchers. She currently serves as Principal Investigator (PI) of two federally-funded grants supporting work on AIM Coaching, an adaptive intervention literacy coaching model for middle school instructional leaders (e.g., coaches).

Dr. Wexler is committed to supporting classroom instruction by providing accessible frameworks that Teachers can implement effectively.

Resources & Links:

• GIST: Collaborative Reading Strategies

• Institute of Education Sciences

• Project CALI

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness.