Team Members

PI/Center Director
Carol Booth Olson (UCI)

Co-PIs
Steve Graham (ASU)
Mark Warschauer (UCI)
Tanya Baker (National Writing Project)
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Co-Investigators
Young-Suk Kim (UCI)
Penelope Collins (UCI)
Robin Scarcella (UCI)
Nicole Gilbertson (UCI)
Catherine D’Aoust (UCI)
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Center Associates
(National Writing Project)
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
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Research Scientists
Huy Chung
​Tamara Tate
​Jenell Krishnan

Research Assistant
​Jazmin Cruz
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Graduate Student Researchers
Minkyung Cho
Jacob Steiss
Jiali Wang
Joong won Lee (Will Lee)
Undarmaa Maamuujav​
​Yucheng Cao


District Partner
Lynn Schaulis

Carol Booth Olson, Center Director

Carol Booth Olson (UCI) is Director of the WRITE Center and Professor Emerita in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Olson has authored several books, including The Reading-Writing Connection, and published over thirty journal articles on interactive strategies for teaching writing, fostering critical thinking through writing, and using multicultural literature with students of culturally diverse backgrounds.

Advisory Board Members

Jim Burke (teacher-scholar)

Jennifer Fletcher (CS Monterey Bay)

Kelly Gallagher (teacher-scholar)

Cynthia Greenleaf (WestEd)

Carol Jago (UCLA)

David Kirkland (NYU)

Judith Langer (U Albany)

Chauncey Monte-Sano (UMich)

George Newell  (The Ohio State)

P. David Pearson (UC Berkeley)

Mary Schleppegrell (UMich)

Guadalupe Valdés (Stanford)

Sam Wineburg (Stanford)

Maisha Winn (UC David)