Author Biography
Nancy Johnson Emanuel, M.Ed., Department Supervisor of Special Education, Osbourn High School, Manassas City Public Schools, Manassas, VA 20110. Ms. Emanuel graduated from Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, with a B.A. in history and secondary education. She went on to serve in the U.S. Navy for 9 years as a Russian linguist and has taught at both the secondary and elementary levels of public education. She received her mastera s degree in special education from the University of Virginia and is currently a doctoral student in special education and education leadership at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Ms. Emanuel is the department supervisor for special education in Manassas City, Virginia. Michael N. Faggella-Luby, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education, 249 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2064, Storrs, CT 06269-2064. Dr. Faggella-Luby is also a research scientist at the Center for Behavioral Education and Research and an associate research scholar at the Center on Postsecondary Education and Disability. Dr. Faggella-Luby conducts research on critical components of reading comprehension instruction with academically diverse students. Richard T. Boon, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Special Education at The University of Georgia. His research interests include cognitive strategy instruction, inclusion, and technology-based applications for students with mild to moderate disabilities. He has written more than 50 publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. In addition, he has made more than 100 presentations at local, state, regional, national, and international conferences. In recognition of his accomplishments in research and teaching, Dr. Boon has received the Outstanding Teaching Award and was selected as a recipient of the Lilly Teaching Fellowship Award for 2006 2008, from the College of Education, both recognizing excellence in teaching and research, and more recently, was the recipient of the Sarah H. Moss Fellowship for 2008 2009 to serve as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto. Vicky G. Spencer, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Division of Special Education and disability Research at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She also coordinates the Applied Behavior Analysis and the Autism certificate programs. Her research interests include cognitive strategy instruction, international issues in special education, inclusion, and autism. She has authored or edited numerous research articles and published four books that address differentiated instruction and teaching in the inclusive classroom. Dr. Spencer is a Fulbright scholar and works internationally to improve the identification and education for children with disabilities. Sheila R. Alber-Morgan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Special Education, The Ohio State University, A356 PAES Building 305 W. 17th Ave. Columbus, OH 43210. Dr. Alber-Morgana s research focuses on multitiered reading and writing interventions in inclusive classrooms and programming for generalized outcomes. Ana Taboada Barber, Ph.D., Associate Professor, George Mason University, 4400 University Boulevard, Fairfax, VA 22030Dr. Taboada Barber's research focuses on the examination of classroom contexts that support reading engagement for monolingual and second language learners. She is specifically interested in the psychology of literacy from a cognitive and motivational perspective. In the past, she worked on the development of the modeling of reading engagement as it applies to all learners (e.g., native-speakers of English and second language learners) in the late elementary grades. She is currently working on the development of frameworks within the engagement model as they apply to second language learners. Her research has been published in the Journal of Educational
