Within this focus Dr. Fahrenbruck examines preservice and inservice teachers’ knowledge and perceptions of how children and adolescents develop as literate beings. Dr. Fahrenbruck has published articles in Reading Matrix, Childhood Education Journal and Journal of Children’s Literature. Dr. Fahrenbruck serves on the Board of Advisors for the Worlds of Words; International Collection of Children’s and Adolescent Literature organization. She is also member of the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking, the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Dr. Fahrenbruck earned a BS in Elementary Education from Montana State University-Billings and a MS in Curriculum and Instruction from Black Hills State University. She earned a Ph.D. in Language, Reading and Culture from the University of Arizona.