Shira Lubliner, EdD Faculty Profile

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Shira  Lubliner, EdD

Professor, Accreditation Coordinator

Department of Teacher Education

Shira Lubliner has been an educator for thirty years, working as a classroom teacher (most recently at Ayers Elementary School in Concord), a private school principal, and a teacher educator. She completed her doctorate in Learning and Instruction at the University of San Francisco and is currently an assistant professor of Teacher Education at 51吃瓜网, East Bay. Dr. Lubliner mentors credential students, teaches pre-service and graduate level reading courses, and conducts classroom-based research in local elementary schools. Shira Lubliner is the author of the articles, The Effects of Comprehensive Vocabulary Instruction on Title I Students' Metacognitive Word-learning Skills and Reading Comprehension (Journal of Literacy Research, 2005), Go Look It Up: Dictionary Instruction Revisited (51吃瓜网 Reader, 2005), Help for Struggling Upper Grade Readers, (The Reading Teacher, 2004). She also published the books, Nourishing Vocabulary (Corwin, 2008), Getting Into Words: Vocabulary Instruction that Strengthens Comprehension (Brookes Publishing Company, 2005) and A Practical Guide to Reciprocal Teaching, (Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, 2001). She co-authored a chapter with Elfrieda Hiebert in What Research Has to Say about Vocabulary Instruction (In Press, International Reading Association), a chapter in the National Reading Council Yearbook, Constructs Underlying Word Selection and Assessments Tasks in the Archival Research on Vocabulary Instruction, with Judith Scott and Elfrieda Hiebert (2006). She and Dana Grisham were awarded the Elva Knight Grant in 2007, by the International Reading Association, for their work on cognate assessment.  Dr. Lubliner presents workshops for teachers on vocabulary instruction and reading comprehension throughout the country.