P. David Pearson

In 2020, I worked with a team of several colleagues to synthesize the contributions of the IES funded Reading for Understanding Initiative…

At the end of the discussions on Saturday, I meant to add this to the twitter feed as it relates to some of…

Here’s a pic from LRA 2014 with the Pearson Family Fellows Yukie Toyama, Kate Brodeur, and Annie Ittner. Thank you, David! Lunch…

David has been a favorite speaker over the years at our Reading Leadership Institute, a network of Illinois literacy decision makers. He…

David Pearson, Devon Brenner, Mary McVee, Gina Cervetti, and Kara Lycke—all of whom occupied the same office suite in CIERA days at…

Some of us, mainly on the program, were challenged to make a short, pithy toast to David, preferably in the form of…

I don’t write well enough to describe what David has meant to me. He was my doctoral advisor during my years at…

Having completed his doctoral program at the U along with Jerry Harste, he was very much at home at the U and…

Dinners with fine wine, shared cabs to the airport, projects in which we have collaborated. What an honor and a treat it…

Mary Alyce & P. David via Ileana Seda and Judy Scott

From Carol Booth Olson: David’s work on the reading/writing connection had a major impact on the UCI Writing Project. Specifically, Tierney and…

The-link-between-standards-and-dual-language-teachers-Spanish-literacy-instruction-and-use-of-formative-assessments-5b366daa9a4f1This article was submitted by Joey García. After re-reading the 1994 García & Pearson article on assessment and diversity, I realized…

I have known David since meeting him during the 2004 NCTE meeting when he was recognized for one of many lifetime achievement…

David made LRA 2008 (back when it was still NRC) in Orlando truly memorable by leading a dance party by the pool….

UCB and UCLA played on the same team between 2003-2009—perhaps a first! Of course this was the TBALL team (Technology Based Assessment…

This article also was derived from Bob Jiménez’s dissertation. It provided qualitative case studies of a successful Latina student’s reading comprehension strategies…

Jimenez-Garcia-Pearson-1996-5b3440ca1f564This article was submitted by Joey (Georgia) Garcia to accompany the 1994 publication entitled “Assessment and Diversity.” David was Bob’s Ph.D….

It has been extremely difficult for me to match specific works of mine with specific works of David’s (I have attached a…

Kong-Pearson-2005-Learning_A-process-of-enculturation-5b3050a40662f From Ailing Kong This piece is the talk that David and I gave at the 2004 NCTE Annual Conference upon…

Truthfully I can’t recall the very first time I met David. I do know that I was surprised, and honored, that he…

From Ailing Kong David and I published this article in Research in the Teaching of English in 2003. It was about how…

During the work of the Rand Commission that redefined reading comprehension at the last run of the century, they commissioned some papers…

David, Mary Alyce, Susan, and Shawn in 2004 having a great time tasting and describing wines! Hilarious! From Susan Seilback

I first met David in the late 90’s at a national meeting where—on the side—I had a chance to show him a…

Dale Johnson and I wrote this 1975 piece in the heyday of Skills Management Systems like Wisconsin Design and Fountain Valley, all…

This book chapter published in the National Reading Conference Yearbook, 46th Edition, stands out to me as one of the more wonderful…

In 1963, Mary Alyce and I did the same 3 things as all our close friends. We graduated from UC Berkeley (Cal…

In 2017 Prof P David Pearson delivered the OUCEA Annual Lecture at the Ashmolean Museum on 25th May. ‘Recent Developments in Reading…