Bill Therrien is the Thomas G. Jewell Professor of Education at the University of Virginia. He also is the coordinator of the Research in Practice group for the STAR (Supporting Transformative Autism Research) project and is Co-PI for the Special Education Research Accelerator (SERA). He is the co-editor of Exceptional Children, the flagship research journal of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Therrien has extensive experience designing and evaluating academic programming for students with autism and learning disabilities particularly in the areas of science and reading. In his work, Therrien employs a variety of methods including single subject, experimental, and quasi-experimental group research designs. Therrien has also conducted numerous meta-analyses in the areas of reading, science and special education. He successfully directed/co-directed over 15 federal and state grants totaling more than $21 million in funding.

Websites and clickable links:
Bill’s faculty page
DLD’s website
TECBD Conference page
Alethia Society page
Flint Michigan Lead Crisis: Settlement

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:

• David Bateman - E10 and E13
• Peggy Weiss - E30
• Erica Lembke - E09

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)

• Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
• Books on Stoicism

Dr. Endia Lindo. Endia is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Texas Christian University. She also is an executive board member and past president of the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL). Her research focuses on improving the reading comprehension of students with learning difficulties and disabilities and educators’ cultural competence. Dr. Lindo engages as a critical quantitative researcher whose work examines what is known and needed to establish, implement, and sustain school and community-based intervention practice especially for those students in which multiple vulnerabilities (e.g., disability, poverty, and cultural and linguistic differences) intersect.

“Choices have invoices.” ~ Busta Rhymes

Websites and clickable links:

Endia’s faculty page

DDEL’s website

What is PALS?

PALS on What Works Clearinghouse

Children of the Code

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:

Mark Schneider - E41 was the Director of the Institute for Educational Sciences (IES)

Jessica Toste - E31 is at the University of Texas

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)

Unstuck & Unstoppable: Shake Off the Past, Find Your Purpose, Get on with Your Life by Jimn Kyles

Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership by Leslie T. Fenwick et al.

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker et al.

Intersectionality in Education: Toward More Equitable Policy, Research, and Practice by Wendy Cavendish et al.

Dr. Elizabeth Hughes is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Penn State University. Her current research line overlaps her love for reading, writing, and mathematics by evaluating the role of language in learning and communicating mathematics. She has developed interventions to support students’ language when learning mathematics and answering open-response word problems in mathematics. Dr. Hughes also is the current Vice President of DLD.

Websites and clickable links:
Elizabeth’s faculty page: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-elizabeth-hughes
DLD’s website: https://www.teachingld.org/

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:
Paul Riccomini - E26 is at Penn State
Kait Brennan - E43 is from Pittsburgh

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)
Murder mysteries with strong female protagonists
Resources to support framing work to make it more culturally inclusive