Camille L. Z. Blachowicz
Professor, National College of Education,
National-Louis University
Camille Blachowicz is Professor of Education at the National College of Education of National-Louis University, where she is director of the Reading Center and Reading Program. In her long career as an educator, Dr. Blachowicz has been a classroom teacher, team leader, and reading specialist as well as a university educator and staff developer.
Her research has been supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation, the Fulbright Council, and the International Reading Association. Dr. Blachowicz's many articles have been published in journals ranging from Educational Leadership and The Reading Teacher to Reading Research Quarterly. She is the co-author of Reading Diagnosis: An Instructional Approach, and Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms, along with numerous book chapters and the recent Reading Comprehension: Strategies for Independent Learners. As a staff developer, she is a frequent speaker at local, national, and international conferences and at meetings of the International Reading Association, where she is a member of the research awards committee.
Dr. Blachowicz has also been named an Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading by the International Reading Association.
Currently, Dr. Blachowicz teaches, writes, and co-directs The Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy, a project to develop K–2 literacy assessment for the state of Illinois. She also directs two projects in urban and suburban schools, Literacy Partners and the Everybody Reads Fluency Project.
Presentation topics- Research-Based Vocabulary Instruction: What Every Educator Should Know—What Every Educator Should Do
- Powerful Strategies to Improve Reading Instruction
- Vocabulary Visits: A Strategy for Primary Vocabulary Development
