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Authorship Team
rBook Authors and Senior Advisors for Instruction, Professional Development, and English-Language Learners
Dr. Ted S. Hasselbring is a Professor of Special Education at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Over the past twenty-five years, Dr. Hasselbring has conducted research on the use of technology for enhancing learning in students with mild disabilities and those who are at-risk of school failure. He has authored more than one hundred articles and book chapters on learning and technology and serves on the editorial boards of six professional journals. He is also the author of several computer programs, including READ 180. Between 2000 and 2006, Dr. Hasselbring left Vanderbilt and served as the Executive Director of the National Assistive Technology Research Institute at the University of Kentucky. In the fall of 2006, Dr. Hasselbring returned to Vanderbilt where he had been a Professor of Special Education and Co-Director of the Learning Technology Center for 18 years. Dr. Hasselbring is a graduate of Indiana University, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1971, the Master of Arts in Teaching Degree with a major in Biology in 1972, and an Ed.D. in Special Education in 1979. Dr. Kate Kinsella is a teacher educator in the Department of Secondary Education at San Francisco State University. She teaches coursework addressing academic language and literacy development in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. She has maintained secondary classroom involvement by teaching an academic literacy class for adolescent English learners through the University’s Step to College Program. She publishes and provides consultancy and training nationally, focusing upon responsible instructional practices that provide second language learners and less proficient readers in grades 4-12 with the language and literacy skills vital to educational mobility. Dr. Kinsella is co-author with Dr. Kevin Feldman of Scholastic’s READ 180 interactive teaching curricula called the “rBook.” She recently co-authored a research monograph commissioned by Scholastic, Inc. addressing the pivotal role of explicit, research-informed vocabulary instruction to close the national achievement gap. She is the program author for Reading in the Content Areas: Strategies for Reading Success and the lead program author for the secondary language arts program Timeless Voices: Timeless Themes. She was co-editor of the CATESOL Journal (CA Assn. of Teachers of ESL) from 2000-2005 and serves on the editorial board for the California Reader. A former Fulbright scholar, Dr. Kinsella has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Marcus Foster Memorial Reading Award, offered by the California Reading Association in 2002 to a California educator who has made a significant statewide impact on both policy and pedagogy in the area of literacy. In 2005 she received California Department of Education’s Award of Excellence for her contributions to improving the education of immigrant youth throughout the state. 
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Dr. Kate Kinsella
Dr. Kevin Feldman is the Director of Reading and Early Intervention with the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE). His career in education spans thirty-two years. As the Director of Reading and Early Intervention for SCOE he develops, organizes, and monitors programs related to K–12 literacy and prevention of reading difficulties. He also serves as a Leadership Team Consultant to the California Reading and Literature Project and assists in the development and implementation of PreK–12 programs throughout California and across the nation. Dr. Feldman’s primary focus is on literacy. His major contributions are in the areas of assisting struggling readers, preventing reading failure, linking assessment to instruction, developing school-wide reading support models, differentiating instruction to meet the full range of learners, and accommodating and accelerating EL/Special Education and other high risk students. Dr. Feldman serves as a consultant to the California Reading & Literature Project, PreK–12, CalSTAT Statewide Special Education Reform Project, and a number of publishers and literacy organizations.
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