Dr. Sharon L. Russell
Dr. Sharon L. Russell is the creator, author and founder of the Adolescent Critical Reading Intervention (ACRI) model. Her BS is in elementary/early childhood education from Millersville University. She holds an M.Ed. in reading as a K-12 Reading Specialist from the Pennsylvania State University and a PhD from the University of Maryland where she designed and researched her accelerated framework for adolescent struggling readers, named as an International Reading Association Outstanding Dissertation of the Year in 2006. She also specialized in the areas of adolescent literacy, genre analysis, and content area comprehension.
