Cynthia Greenleaf

For more than two decades, Dr. Cynthia Greenleaf has conducted cutting-edge research in adolescent literacy and translated it into powerful teacher professional development. Her work co-developing the Reading Apprenticeship Instructional Framework has changed classrooms for hundreds of thousands of secondary and college students and their teachers. As Co-Director of the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd, Dr. Greenleaf oversees ongoing R&D for the project, design of learning engagements for teachers and students, and studies of the effects of this work in order to increase its efficacy and impact.