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Maria S. Carlo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Teaching and Learning, University of Miami
Maria S. Carlo studies bilingualism in children and adults.
She obtained a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. Her research focuses on the cognitive processes
that underlie reading in a second language and on understanding
the differences in the reading processes of bilinguals and monolinguals.
Dr. Carlo is co-principal investigator on an NICHD funded project
that investigates the transfer of reading skills from Spanish
to English among primary schoolchildren.
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Elfrieda “Freddy” H. Hiebert, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Elfrieda (Freddy) H. Hiebert is currently a Visiting Research
Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor
Hiebert received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked in the field
of early reading acquisition for 35 years, first as a teacher’s
aide and teacher of primary-level students in central California
and, subsequently, as a teacher, educator, and researcher at
the Universities of Kentucky, Colorado-Boulder, and Michigan.
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Mr. Chauncey Veatch
2002 National Teacher of the Year
Chauncey Veatch earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University
of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence
from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. During
his first years as an educator, he earned his teaching credential
from Chapman University in Palm Desert, California, by taking
classes on weekends and evenings. He is also a graduate of the
United States Army Command and General Staff College in Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
Based in Hawaii, PREL is an independent, nonprofit corporation
that works collaboratively with schools and school systems to
provide services in the areas of reading and language development
for multi-language and multi-cultural communities. Through federal
research funding, PREL developed NEARstar, which Scholastic
licensed and turned into Zip Zoom English.
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