Nancy Farnan nfarnan@mail.sdsu.edu

Nancy Farnan has spent her life in classrooms, as both a classroom teacher and reading specialist, where her commitment to students' literacy development has consistently been a central focus.  That commitment reaches into every aspect of her work--with children and adolescents in elementary, middle school, and secondary classrooms, and in collaboration with teachers in ongoing professional development.  Currently, she is Director of the School of Teacher Education in the College of Education.  She still spends much of her time in classrooms, working in schools and school districts as they develop writing programs across grade levels. Dr. Farnan serves on the Center for the Advancement of Reading's Single Subject Reading Task Force, speaks regularly at state and national conferences, serves on several editorial boards, and publishes her work in such periodicals as Reading and Writing Quarterly, Journal of Reading, and The New Advocate.  Her books include Writing Effectively: Helping Children Master the Conventions of Writing, co-authored with Leif Fearn (Allyn & Bacon, 1998); Children's Writing: Perspectives from Research, co-authored with Karin Dahl (International Reading Association, 1998); Interactions: Teaching Writing and the Language Arts, co-authored with Leif Fearn (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); and Content Area Reading and Writing: Instructional Strategies (2006, edited by D. Lapp, J. Flood, & N. Farnan, 3rd edition, Lawrence Erlbaum).