Judy Wallis has spent the past four decades as a teacher, literacy coach, staff developer, and university instructor. She served two large, diverse, Houston, Texas school districts as language arts director and provided leadership support for literacy coaches for 21 years. Her professional interests and work focus on leadership and whole-school/district change through robust literacy instruction. She currently works with schools and districts across the country as a staff developer and educational consultant. Her work has focused on linking research and practice and bringing out the strengths in others. Judy has authored a number of professional book chapters and articles and written the “Blue Pages” in Conversations with Regie Routman. Recent books, Comprehension Intervention, K-2 and Comprehension Intervention, 3-6, were co-authored with Steph Harvey and Anne Goudvis.
