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Bill Saunders, Ph.D., Vice-President, LT™ Learning Teams Bill Saunders, Ph.D., Vice-President of LT learning teams, is a Senior Research Fellow at CSU, Long Beach; a Research Associate at UCLA and the author of numerous papers and chapters on the quasi-experimental studies of the Pearson LT learning teams program. Dating back to the initial LT research, Bill was the Co-Principal Investigator and School-Site Advisor for an extensive six year, single school case study conducted from 1989 through 1996. He then acted as Co-Principal Investigator and School-Site Advisor for a successful multi-year, 15 elementary school, quasi-experimental scale-up study conducted from 1996-2002 (McDougall, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2007; Saunders and Goldenberg, 2005; Saunders, Goldenberg, and Gallimore, 2006). From 2002 to 2005 he was the Director of the LT Network (formerly Getting Results) through CSU Long Beach. In tandem with his role as VP of LT learning teams for Pearson, he has been the Principal Investigator leading several literacy development studies, most recently involving a synthesis of US and international EL research. Bill was formerly a High School teacher and Director of the University of Southern California’s Writing Project. Currently Bill directs Pearson LT school-based programs for improving instruction and learning for all LT implementations nationwide. |