Lana Edwards Santoro
Research Professor
Dr. Lana Edwards Santoro is a research professor in the Special Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She has presented extensively on how to apply evidence-based instructional strategies in the classroom. She has also coauthored multiple reading programs for elementary-grade students who struggle with reading, including Early Reading Intervention (Pearson), and Moving-up Literacy’s Enhanced Core Reading Instruction (ECRI) and Read Aloud!: Developing Narrative and Scientific Literacy.
Dr. Santoro consults with state, local, and private agencies, including the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN), where she helped develop content related to multitiered systems of support in the areas of writing and intensive intervention for students with dyslexia and language-based challenges in reading. In addition, she applies her knowledge of research and disability and support for individualized, interdisciplinary approaches to both education and treatment in her advocacy work with the International Research Association for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
Previously, Dr. Santoro was a special education teacher in elementary and middle school settings and taught pre- and in-service teachers and leaders at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Recent News
- National Center on Improving Literacy Joins BU Wheelock
- BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2021
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Education
PhD, Special Education, University of Oregon
MEd, Education, Boston University
BA, Education & Psychology, Wittenberg University