Service to the Scholarly Community

• Reviewer: Tenure & Promotion Dossier. University of South Florida, Department of Special Education (Fall, 2008)
• Co-Editor, Research on Early Education and Child Health: A Bilingual Interdisciplinary Journal (REACH) with Maureen Hoskyn and Daniel Moore. First issue to be published in summer of 2006 (December, 2004 – Present)
• Co-Director, Institute for Research on Early Education and Child Health. Simon Fraser University (December, 2004 – Present)
• Reviewer, Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada, Annual Meeting Program (2008)
  
• Reviewer, British Journal of Educational Studies (November 2007–present)
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Educational Foundations (2005–2008)
• Selection Committee Member, Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada, Masters Research Award 2005 (February, 2005)
• Test Items Reviewer, Judged degree of fit between inventory items and domain characteristics to which items were referenced for the PhD. thesis study: Screening Cognitive Functioning in Preschool Children with Varying Health Conditions, conducted by C. Randy Duncan at the University of Saskatchewan (May, 2005)
• Selection Committee Member, Butts Lecture. American Educational Studies Association (2003)
• Guest Reviewer, The Alberta Journal of Educational Research (March, 2002)
• Guest Reviewer, The Alberta Journal of Educational Research (March, 2001)
• Paper Session Chair, Teaching as Reflective Praxis. Annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association. Detroit, Michigan (October, 1999)
• Member, Program Committee, Annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association (1999)
• Reviewer, The Urban Review (1996–present)
• Reviewer, The High School Journal (1996–present)
• Special Education Representative, Graduate Students Association, UNC at Chapel Hill (1995–1996)

Professional Affiliations

• American Educational Research Association
• Canadian Association of Educational Psychology
• International Reading Association
• Metropolis, BC (Senior Researcher)
• National Reading Conference

Consulting

• The Commonwealth of Learning, COL International, Vancouver, British Columbia (August, 2000)
  Conducted a needs assessment of teacher education in special education and special education services for students with learning disabilities in Mumbai (Bombay), India in response to a request from SchoolNet India and COL International.