Jade Wexler, Ph.D. is a professor of special education and the inaugural College of Education Impact Professor at the University of Maryland. Her current research focuses on improving literacy outcomes for secondary students with reading difficulties and disabilities, through the employment of innovative professional learning opportunities for teachers that include research-based adaptive coaching models and the use of technology-based tools designed to support the implementation of evidence-based literacy practices. Dr. Wexler has been the principal investigator and co-principal investigator on several federally funded grants exceeding $11 million, and she has published over 55 peer-reviewed journal articles and three books about adolescent literacy, literacy coaching, and the establishment of sustainable schoolwide literacy models. She presents frequently for teachers, school leaders and researchers at peer reviewed nationally recognized conferences and districts across the nation. To ensure that her research can be generalized to ‘real world’ instructional settings, Wexler conducts her research in ‘typical’ schools. As such she greatly values her research partnerships with school districts.