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Publications By and About Faculty Members in the MA Program

• Jolynn Asato (under construction)
• Colette Rabin (under construction)
• Katharine Davies Samway (under construction)
• Grinell Smith (under construction)
• David Whitenack (under construction)
• Elizabeth Jaeger (under construction)

Publications By and About Our Graduates of the MA Program

• Kelly Sullivan is a graduate of our MA program and she works at Dahl School in the Franklin-McKinley USD.  She and a colleague have been implementing a cross-age buddy program and in March 2011, the district published an article about their work.
• Pamela Ann Myers published an article based on her MA project in the December 2005 issue of The Reading Teacher, 59(4), 314–324. doi: 10.1598/RT.59.4.2.  The article is titled “The Princess Storyteller, Clara Clarifier, Quincy Questioner, and the Wizard: Reciprocal Teaching Adapted for Kindergarten Students.” 
• Brooke Carey Ahrens published an article based on her MA project in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 48(8), 642–654. doi: 10.1598/JAAL.48.8.2.The article is titled “Finding a New Way: Reinventing a Sixth-Grade Reading Program.”
• Rebecca Haslemann published an article based on her MA project in the September 2003 issue of IRA Phonics Journal.The article is titled “Phonics Instruction in a Whole Language Classroom: A Place for Explicit Instruction.”

Useful links

• National Reports
• Professional Organizations for Educators
• State of California Agencies
• Research Centers
• Assessment/Testing-Related Websites
• Help With Writing Research Papers
• Other Websites

Professional Organizations for Educators

• Association of California School Administrators (ACSA):http://www.acsa.org/
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD):http://www.ascd.org/
• California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE):http://www.bilingualeducation.org/join.html
• California Association of Teachers of English (CATE): http://www.cateweb.org/
• California Library Association (CLA): http://www.cla-net.org/
• California Reading Association (CRA):http://www.californiareads.org/
• California School Library Association (CSLA):http://www.schoolibrary.org/
• Califorina Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL):http://www.catesol.org/
• Computer Using Educators (CUE):http://www.cue.org/
• International Reading Association (IRA):http://www.reading.org/
• National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE):http://www.nabe.org/
• National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE):http://www.ncte.org/
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL):http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp

State of California Agencies

• California Commission for Teacher Credentialing (CCTC): http://www.ctc.ca.gov/
• California Department of Education (CDE): http://www.cde.ca.gov/

Research Centers

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). CAL is a private, non-profit organization: a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems. CAL carries out a wide range of activities including research, teacher education, analysis and dissemination of information, design and development of instructional materials, technical assistance, conference planning, program evaluation, and policy analysis.”http://www.cal.org/

• U.S. Department of Education National Research and Development Centers:http://www.ed.gov/help/site/expsearch/nrdc.html
• Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE):http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/ 
• Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk/Johns Hopkins University:http://www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/index.htm 
• Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk/Howard University:http://crespar.law.howard.edu/
• Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST):http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/index5.htm
• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA):http://www.ciera.org/
• Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP):http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail/
• National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL):http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/
• National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science:http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/NCISLA/
• National Center for Postsecondary Improvement:http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/index.html
• National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL):http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/
• National Center on Increasing the Effectiveness of State and Local Education Reform Efforts:http://www.cpre.org/index_js.htm
• National Research & Development Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA):http://cela.albany.edu/
• National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented:http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html

Assessment/Testing-Related Websites

• Alfie Kohn, a website about high stakes testing and standards and their impact on students and teachers:
  http://www.alfiekohn.org/
• The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial:http://www.fairtest.org/
• FairTest's Assessment Reform Network, “a national project created to support parents, teachers, students and others who are working to end the overuse and misuse of standardized testing in public education and to promote authentic forms of assessment.”
  http://www.fairtest.org/arn/arn.htm
• National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES):http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/

Other Websites

• Teachers College Reading and Writing Project:http://rwproject.tc.columbia.edu/
• National Writing Project:http://www.writingproject.org/About/index.html
• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA):http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

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