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 |  | Douglas Fisher is Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, the Co-Director for the Center for the Advancement of Reading at the California State University Chancellor’s office, and the past Director of Professional Development for the City Heights Educational Collaborative. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design, as well as books such as Creating Literacy-rich Schools for Adolescents (with Gay Ivey), Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work (with Nancy Frey) and Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach (with Carol Rothenberg). A former early intervention specialists, language development specialist, he has also taught high school English, writing, and literacy development to public school students. Some of his presentation topics include content literacy, ELL, and struggling readers. |
Douglas Fisher's Selected Presentations
Conference Presentations
| Douglas is a regular presenter at NCTE, IRA, and ASCD conferences. In addition, he is asked to present at schools and districts across the nation. |
Consulting Projects
| Douglas has consulted extensively at schools in San Diego, Ohio, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania on content literacy, struggling readers, the use of alternative texts, and more across most grade levels. |
Doug’s NCTE Web Seminar Presentation
|  View the PPT from Doug’s Web seminar presentation "All Teachers Are Not Teachers of Reading, but . . . " on February 19, 2008. The On Demand version of this web seminar is available in the NCTE Store. |
Presentation Topics
| Here is a short list of Douglas' many presentation topics, including content literacy, building literacy-rich schools, differentiated instruction, use of alternative texts, creating literacy coaching programs, and helping struggling readers. |
Sample Workshops and Consultations
| Douglas can customize the following workshops to meet your needs. Workshop descriptions on "Content Literacy Strategies that Work," "Improving Thinking and Writing Through Instruction," and "Developing Literate Behaviors" follow. He then briefly describes his consulting work, many on building school-wide literacy plans for schools. |
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Published Works by Douglas Fisher
What Does It Take to Create Skilled Readers? Facilitating the Transfer and Application of Literacy Strategies
|  In this article, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey provide examples of how middle school teachers can create skilled readers through the transfer and application of literacy strategies. |
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
|  Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey contributed two chapters in this book--"Altering English: Re-examining the Whole Class Novel and Making Room for Graphic Novels and More" and "Using Graphic Novels, Anime, and the Internet in an Urban High School." |
Classroom Notes Plus Article on use of Graphic Organizers
|  In this excerpt from "Foldables: Improving Learning with 3-D Interactive Graphic Organizers," by Douglas Fisher, Dinah Zike, and Nancy Frey, they describe how to use graphic organizers—specifically, a type called "the Foldable"—for meaningful learning in the English language arts. |
Language Learners in the English Classroom
|  This book is designed as a tool to guide English teachers in designing powerful lessons that accelerate the achievement of students who are learning English. It also helps English teachers play a role in helping ELLs achieve academic success across disciplines. Nancy co-authored this book with Doug Fisher. |
Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents
|  In this book written by Douglas and Gay Ivey, they argue that, primarily, students need lots of rich, literacy-based learning experiences across the school day, and sometimes those experiences require specific instruction in reading, but all have the ultimate goal of learning and thinking. |
Professional Journal Articles
| Douglas has published in numerous professional journals including Principal Leadership, Voices from the Middle, Reading Matters, English Journal, Educational Leadership, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, The High School Magazine, and many others. |
Book Chapters
| Douglas is involved in many upcoming books on literacy and one recent book chapter is focused on re-examining the whole class novel and making room for graphic novels. This is an upcoming NCTE book by J.B. Carter. |
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Related Resources
ELL Professional Development
|  NCTE's Pathways for Teaching and Learning with English Language Learners is a self-paced multimodal learning experience that invites you to actively interact in a professional community of practice as you engage with the program's resources and tools. Kick-off Pathways with an onsite visit from Doug, one of the program developers.
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Education and Professional Experiences
| Douglas has degrees from San Diego State University and the Drucker Management Program at Claremont Graduate School. His areas of expertise include: literacy language development, language arts and literacy, school restructuring and reform, curriculum and instruction for social justice, cultural and linguistic diversity, and inclusive education. |
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