Dr. Brantley comes to the university setting with 11 years of elementary school teaching experience. Presently Dr. Brantley acts as the Coordinator of the Reading and Language Arts Graduate Program for the university and oversees the Watson and Associates Literacy Center. Much of her research has been done in the field of literacy and language acquisition.http://www.csusb.edu/coe/programs/reading_lang_arts/index.htm Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org