Karen R. Harris is a renowned Regents Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Arizona State University. She has been an educator for 50 years, first teaching 4th grade in a coal mining community in West Virginia and then teaching adolescents in special education. She earned her doctoral degree at Auburn University in 1981. Her research spans special education, educational psychology, and literacy. She developed the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model of strategies instruction, researched in the areas of writing, mathematics, and more. SRSD has been deemed an evidenced based instructional method in the U.S. and SRSD instruction is now being researched or implemented in numerous countries. Her current research focuses on integrating skills instruction with SRSD for writing, and effective professional development for SRSD instruction in inclusive classrooms. Former editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology, Dr. Harris was senior editor of the American Psychological Association Educational Psychology Handbook, (2012). She is co-author or co-editor of 15 books, including Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students. Author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications, she has contributed to white papers for groups such as IRA/NICHD, Carnegie, and CEC. She has served widely, for example as the former President of both APA Division 15 (Educational Psychology) and the Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Research. She has received over 20 awards for research, including career awards, from the International Council for Exceptional Children, American Educational Research Association, and the American Psychological Association.
Selected Publications:
Harris, K. R., Ray, A., Graham, S., & Houston, J. (2019). Answering the challenge: SRSD instruction for close reading of text to write to persuade with 4th and 5th grade students experiencing writing difficulties. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32, 1345-1357. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11145-018-9910-1 Bembenutty, H., & Harris, K.R. (2022). An interview with Karen R. Harris: The pioneer and developer of the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model of writing instruction (pp. 109-147). Contemporary Pioneers in Teaching and Learning, Vol. 2. Information Age Publishing. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Contemporary-Pioneers-in-Teaching-and-Learning-Volume-2 Harris, K. R., Kim, Y. S., Yim, S., Camping, A., & Graham, S. (2023). Yes, they can: Developing transcription skills and oral language in tandem with SRSD instruction on close reading of science text to write informative essays at grades 1 and 2. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 73, 102150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2023.102150 Harris, K.R., Camping, A., & McKeown, D. (2023). A review of research on professional development for multicomponent strategy-focused writing instruction: Knowledge gained and challenges remaining. In DeSmedt, F., Bouwer, R., Limpo, T., & Graham, S. (Eds). Conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating writing interventions (pp. 101-136). Brill Publishing. https://brill.com/display/book/9789004546240/BP000006.xml Harris, K. R. (2024). The Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instructional Model: Efficacious Theoretical Integration, Scaling Up, Challenges, and Future Research. Educational Psychology Review, 36(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09921-x
