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The members of the Special Interest Group on Global Literacy represent a variety of agencies, institutions, and personal and professional perspectives. They also reflect diverse interests covered by the broad umbrella of global literacy.

Members of the Special Interest Group on Global Literacy are available as resources to the Comparative International Education Society, its affiliates and members, as well as literacy institutions, foundations, and individual educators, researchers, and policy makers around the world.

Please feel free to contact GL-SIG members directly using the information members have posted below.

 Interested in becoming a member of the Global Literacy Special Interest Group?
Contact Jim Wile (jwile@aed.org)

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GL- SIG MEMBERS

Dani M. Abrams
Institutional Affiliation: Education Consultant
Areas of Interest/Expertise: Curriculum development; multiculturalism and diversity in education; international education
Current Projects/Activities: Curriculum Development Specialist, Cultural Orientation Resource Center (Center for Applied Linguistics); Reading across Continents (curriculum development, cross-cultural development and training, teacher training, grant writing)
Email Address: danimariasha@gmail.com
Web Pages: www.readingacrosscontinents.com

Elizabeth Adelman
Institutional Affiliation: Academy for Educational Development

Carolyn Temple Adger
Institutional Affiliation: Center for Applied Linguistics
Areas of Interest/Expertise : teacher education, oral language and literacy, literacy in social context, biliteracy
Current projects/activities: development of a bilingual (Ghanaian language and English) curriculum and instructional approach, and teacher training
Email Address: cadger@cal.org
Telephone number(s): office  202 362-0700, mobile 303 613-1900

Leslie Bartlett, PhD
Associate Professor
Teachers College, Columbia University
Email Address: LB2035@columbia.edu
Telephone number: 212 678- 3794
Homepage: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/bartlett/index.html
Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies at TC: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/centers/cmll/

Jim Bauman
Institutional Affiliation: Center for Applied Linguistics

Priscilla Marie Anne Blinco, PhD
Institutional Affiliation: Stanford University

Colette Chabbott
Institutional Affiliation: Adjunct Faculty
International Education Program
Graduate School of Education and Human Development
George Washington University
E-mail Address: chabbott@gwu.edu

Nancy Clair, Ed.D.
Institutional Affiliation:  Independent
Areas of Interest/Expertise:  teacher education; development of literacy standards, aligning instruction with literacy standards
Current projects/activities: development of a literacy program in Chichewa for Malawi; development of literacy standards and aligning them with teacher education and inservice education in Ghana; strengthening the teaching of literacy and numeracy in Macedonia
Email Address: n.clair@earthlink.net

Craig Clendinen
Institutional Affiliation: SIL International

Luis Crouch
Institutional Affiliation: RTI International
Areas of Interest/Expertise: Assessment, early grades, improvement strategies, accountability for literacy as a right, education finance
Current projects/activities: EdData II
Email Address: lcrouch@rti.org and luis.crouch@gmail.com

Telephone number(s): office +1 202 974 7819, mobile +1 703 606 7296
Web pages: www.rti.org/idg and www.eddataglobal.org

Carol DeShano da Silva
Institutional Affiliation: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Areas of Interest/Expertise: reading instruction and achievement in children ages 3 to 9, reading teacher education, reading development and achievement in second language learners, home-school partnerships to promote reading, reading policy
Current projects/activities: Dissertation research on the instruction of students with reading difficulties in public primary schools in Brazil
Email Address: cdd446@mail.harvard.edu

Bridget Drury
Institutional Affiliation: Academy for Educational Development

Patrick Fine
Institutional Affiliation: Academy for Educational Development

Amber Gove
Institutional Affiliation: RTI International

Donna K. Leczel
Institutional Affiliation: Academy for Educational Development
Areas of interest:  Teacher education, reading and writing instruction
Current projects:  teacher development in Kenya, school leadership in Zambia, teacher development with focus on reading in Indonesia
Email Address:
Telephone: 415-292-9736

Sakil Malik
Institutional Affiliation: International Reading Association

Shirley J. Miske, Ph.D.
Institutional Affiliation: Miske Witt and Associates Inc.

Audrey-Marie Schuh Moore, Ph.D.
Institutional Affiliation: Academy for Educational Development

Robert Prouty
Institutional Affiliation: World Bank

Carmen Siri, Ph.D.
Institutional Affiliation: Academy for Educational Development

Barbara Trudell
Institutional Affiliation: SIL International

Mary Spoor
Institutional Affiliation: Alabama A&M University

Dan Wagner
Institutional Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania

	James Wile

James Wile
Institutional Affiliation: Academy for Educational Development
Areas of Interest/Expertise: Development of literacy curriculum, teacher education in reading and writing instruction and assessment in primary and junior secondary, promoting cultures of literacy.
Current projects/activities: Development of Success in Schools, a series of monographs describing factors that ensure pupil success in primary grades and junior secondary.
Email Address: jwile@aed.org; jamesmwile@gmail.com
Telephone number(s):
office +1 202 884 8097                
mobile +1 202 344 6783
Web pages: www.aed.org