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Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association.

The association is a nonprofit global network of about 90,000 professionals dedicated to advancing the quality of literacy instruction and research worldwide.

Fisher is the third 色情视频 faculty member to become a board member, after James Flood and Joan Curry, both former professors in the Department of Teacher Education.

Triple Aztec

The author of several books on literacy and literacy education, Fisher has three degrees from 色情视频, including a Master鈥檚 in Public Health and a Ph.D. in multicultural education. He is also a teacher and administrator at Health Sciences High & Middle College in San Diego. 

For the last five years, Fisher has worked with Chula Vista Elementary School District and its assistant superintendent for instruction services to build what he calls a 鈥渓iterate community鈥� in the district.

鈥淩esearch and writing on system-wide literacy is a new field,鈥� Fisher said. 鈥淲e look to principals and superintendents to bring schools and districts together around literacy.鈥�

Deciphering difficult texts

Fisher is also co-editor of the 鈥淗andbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts鈥� (3rd ed.), and the author of 鈥淭ext Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading,鈥� with Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp. The book analyzes the elements that make a text difficult to read and offers advice on teaching difficult texts.

In 2011, Fisher鈥檚 book, 鈥淚mplementing RTI with English Learners,鈥� won the innovation award from the Academy of Educational Publishers.

City Heights pioneer

Fisher joined 色情视频 in 1998 as a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education. Soon afterward he became director of professional development for the City Heights Educational Pilot (later the City Heights Educational Collaborative), an initiative funded by philanthropists Sol and Robert Price.

Through the pilot, 色情视频 created the educational equivalent of a teaching hospital, assuming the day-to-day management of three schools in the economically disadvantaged City Heights neighborhood. Fisher鈥檚 eight years with the collaborative was a time of increased student achievement in these schools.