Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar is the Jean and Charles Walgreen Jr. Chair of Reading and Literacy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and a teacher educator in educational studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the design of learning environments that support self-regulation in learning activity, especially for children who experience difficulty learning in school.
Annemarie completed her doctorate at the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois, Champaign–Urbana. She has served as a member of the National Academy's Research Council on the Prevention of Reading Difficulty in Young Children, the OERI/RAND Reading Study Group, the National Research Council's Panel on Teacher Preparation, the National Education Goals Panel, and the National Advisory Board to Children's Television Workshop. She is co-editor of the journal Cognition and Instruction and is a member of the National Academy of Education .
Among her recent publications is Informed Choices for Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Research-Based Guide to Instructional Programs and Practices (2007, Deshler, Palincsar, Biancarosa, & Nair). This book reviews many issues, including myths and misperceptions, associated with adolescent literacy and describes the instructional approach and research base of 48 currently available programs.
Michael Fullan, professor emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, is an international leader on educational change. He has developed a number of partnerships designed to bring about major school improvements and is engaged in training, consulting, and evaluation of change projects around the world.
Michael and his colleagues have worked extensively with Microsoft's Partners in Learning (PiL) initiative. As part of their work with this initiative, they have written annotated summaries of what they consider to be the 20 best books on leadership and change, and they have named 10 top web sites for tools, instruments, and ideas for improving change leadership. Both the annotations and the web links are available at www.michaelfullan.ca.
Michael now serves as special advisor to the Premier and Minister of Education in Ontario. His book, Leading in a Culture of Change, was awarded the 2002 Book of the Year Award by the National Staff Development Council. In Turnaround Leadership, he shows how leaders can convert even the worst situation into an opportunity to rejuvenate their schools. Other books by Michael to watch for are Six Secrets of Change and What's Worth Fighting for in the Principalship. Both books are expected to be published by March.
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