The popular Teaching Edge series is returning to IRA’s 59th Annual Conference. The four speakers at our Teaching Edge series are sure to inform and delight attendees, making a memorable experience for the fourth year in a row.

Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey

Douglas Fisher


Nancy Frey


Kelly Gallagher


Debbie Diller

Douglas Fisher is a professor at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College. He has participated in previous Teaching Edge events for IRA and co-authored, with Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp, the bestseller Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading.

Nancy Frey is a professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. In 2008 she won the Early Career Achievement Award from the National Reading Conference. She is also a special educator and reading specialist in California.

Kelly Gallagher

Kelly Gallagher also returns to our Teaching Edge series. He is a teacher with over 27 years’ experience and author of Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts and Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It. He is the former co-director of the South Basin Writing Project at California State University.

Debbie Diller

Debbie Diller makes her Teaching Edge debut after leading a popular session at IRA 2013. Diller is a Title I reading specialist, literacy coach, and national education consultant with over 35 years of experience. She has published numerous books and her articles have been published in The Reading Teacher and The State of Reading.

With a lineup of speakers like this, Teaching Edge is certain to be another hit. The IRA 59th Annual Conference will be held May 9–12, 2014, in New Orleans. Register online, by phone, by fax, or by mail. For more information, visit www.iraconference.org.

Chelsea Miller is the strategic communications intern at the International Reading Association.