Dr. Marcia Kosanovich is the Intervention Director of the Targeted Reading Intervention within the National Research Center on Rural Education Support at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Kosanovich has been an educator for 20 years and earned her degrees in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Early Literacy from Central Michigan University, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and Florida State University. She is a reading educator with expertise in teaching struggling readers and extensive experience in professional development and curriculum development. She is a former classroom teacher with experience teaching ESE Pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, third grade, and tutoring K-12 students. Additionally, Dr. Kosanovich has experience teaching general and special education reading methods classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr. Kosanovich is the lead author of many literacy guidance documents for educators at the state, district, and school levels. She is also the lead author of the Student Center Activities developed at the Florida Center for Reading Research for K-5 teachers. She has co-authored an intervention reading curriculum designed for small group instruction, research articles in peer-reviewed journals, and chapters in books. For six years, she was the Director of Curriculum and Instructional Projects at the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University and led the Center’s review of curricula and the development of the Student Center Activities. She was also the Deputy Director for the National Center on Instruction for Literacy and led the creation of professional development and guidance documents for regional and state level reading educators.