Elfrieda (Freddy) H. Hiebert is President and CEO of TextProject, Inc., a not-for-profit aimed at increasing student-reading levels through appropriate texts. She is also a research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Hiebert received the Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked in the field of early reading acquisition for over 40 years, as a teacher in central California and as a university-based teacher educator and researcher. Dr. Hiebert has published numerous research articles, chapters and academic books. Dr. Hiebert's model of accessible texts for beginning and struggling readers--TExT--has been used to develop a number of reading programs that are widely used in schools, including QuickReads, QReads, and Zip Zoom. Visit www.textproject.org for more information on Freddy Hiebert and the TExT model of reading. Free resources for students, teachers, and researchers are also available at www.textproject.org.