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Faculty Profile

EDUCATION

1980 - Ph.D., University of Delaware, Reading Education

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Timothy Shanahan's research and teaching focus on how to improve schoolwide reading achievement particularly in urban schools, the relationships of reading and writing (that is how learning one helps students to learn the other), family literacy, and reading assessment. He teaches courses in fostering school reading improvement and synthesizing literacy research. He has a blog site: www.shanahanonliteracy.com

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS  (more)

2008 - Shanahan, T., & Shanahan, C. (2008). Teaching disciplinary literacy to adolescents: Rethinking content-area literacy. Harvard Educational Review, 78, 40-59.

2007 - Shanahan, T. (2007, April/May). Lessons in the ethics of literacy. Reading Today, 24(5), 18.

2007 - Shanahan, T. (2007, February/March). More ideas not everyone will like. Reading Today, 24(4), 18.

2007 - Gersten, R., Baker, S. K., Shanahan, T., Linan-Thompson, S., Collins, P., & Scarcella, R. (200&). Effective literacy and English language instruction for English learners in the elementary grades. Washington, DC: Institute of Education Sciences.

2006 - August, D., & Shanahan, T. (Eds.). (2006). Developing literacy in second-language learners. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

2006 - Shanahan, T., & Beck, I.L. (2006). Effective literacy teaching for English-Language Learners. In D. August & T. Shanahan (Eds.), Developing literacy in second-language learners (pp. 415488). Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

HONORS AND AWARDS  (more)

2007 - Inducted to the Reading Hall of Fame.

2006 - Appointed to the Board of Advisors of the National Institute for Literacy by President George W. Bush (approved by the U.S. Senate).

2002 - Elected to the Illinois Reading Council Hall of Fame.

1997 - Recipient, Albert J. Harris Award for Outstanding Research on Reading Disability, International Reading Association.

1994 - Recipient, University of Delaware Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement.

1983 - Recipient, Milton D. Jacobson Readability Research Award, Readability Special Interest Group, International Reading Association.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Advisory Board Member, Reach Out and Read

Advisory Board Member, National Institute for Literacy (Presidential appointment). http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/advisoryindex.html

President, International Reading Association (elected). http://www.reading.org/association/about/board.html

Advisory Board Member, National Center for Family Literacy

Director of Reading, Chicago Public Schools.

Member, Board of Directors, International Reading Association (elected).