Reference List

The following experts will be used as reliable resources for conducting research about AVID College Readiness. These authors or professionals had specialized on the field of college readiness.

Kim Clark
 Field of expertise: Paying for college; Financial Aid; Personal Finance

 Background: Clark had over 20 years of field experience as a veteran journalist specifically in the category of college financial aids. She had worked on how to efficiently expand college financial aid and had educated the public and the students about this topic through press conference, presentations, and through websites. In fact, one the site she had created, www. financialaidletter.com , had made her popular. Her career as a journalist began in Portland (Maine) Press Herald and soon became a reporter to the State House correspondent.  She also focused on the field of economics as she later experienced working as a business reporter in Baltimore and Sun.
Source: (http://www.usnews.com)


 Ramen Koopman
Field of expertise:  Ameri Corps member in Health Corps program at Sea Mar Community Health Center, South Seattle; attained degree in Mathematics and Biochemistry in 2012. 

Background: Former Avid student who was a first generation college graduate in his family. Koopmans appreciated how certain skills he had developed in AVID  as a high school student helped him in the long run most especially in college.  He encountered problems with education his since his mother did not speak English fluently and he argued that AVID gave him the opportunity to learn studying skills to solve these problems. From time management to binder organization, these skills helped him throughout his college career graduating with a cumulative GPA of 3.61.
Source:( http://avidcollegeready.org)


Deanna Mascle
Field of expertise: Morehead State College Readiness Coordinator,Teach writers, writing teachers, direct NWP site, run Writing Studio, Tech pedagogy ninja


Background: Had career experience in Morehead State College Readiness program as the lead to monitor and see the progression unprepared college students. From this point, she focus on the strength and weaknesses of programs to better support students success in college. She focuses on building confidence and readiness for students to adapt to the different environments and rules in college.


Source:  (http://metawriting.deannamascle.com/)

                                                               
Jessica Pliska
Field of expertise: Executive and Founder Director of The Opportunity Newyork, U.S. Director of Marketing for Mercer Delta Consulting, advisors to CEOs on organizational change, and part of Marsh & McLennan Companies.

Background:  She focused on programs that will economically benefit cities specifically the "I Have A Dream" Foundation. From her job experiences, she specialized in communication, marketing and made strategic programs to have successful project. Along with this, her B.A in political science contributed in these projects and even gave her a position on one of the boards of One To World Organization. This organization focused on offering international students to experience cultural and learning opportunities specifically in New York.


Source: (http://opportunitynetwork.org)


Ann M. Johns
Field of expertise:Professor Emerita of Linguistics & Writing Studies, San Diego State University (CA/USA)

Background: Dr, Johns bring learning, teaching, reading, and writing into multi-language version such as in Turkey, Lebanon, Mexico, France, Russia and many more. Her teachings are based on ESL theory, pedagogy and second language reading and writing. She had published books  such as Text, Role, and Context (1997) and Genre in the Classroom (2002) in which describe her experience with teaching multi-culture students. Her genre theory can also be observed in these books with  “Genre awareness for the novice academic student: An ongoing quest,” in Language Teaching. She continued her passion for teaching and helping students
even as she "retired from her position as professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University."

Source: (http://english.cmu.edu)

David T. Conley
Field of expertise: Professor; Director, Center for Educational Policy Research

Background: Dr. Conley mostly concentrate on research college readiness specifically for college and high school. With his research, he analyse statistics that will determine students readiness for college and are actually used for bettering college readiness programs. "His findings have been published in numerous technical reports, conference papers, book chapters, and journals, such as Education Week, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Policy and Educational Leadership. Dr. Conley serves on numerous technical and advisory panels, including co-chairing the Common Core State Standards Validation "

Source: (https://education.uoregon.edu)