Jennifer B. Wick Schnakenberg, Ph.D.
Jennifer B. Wick Schnakenberg, Ph.D., is the principal investigator for the Texas Literacy
Initiative at the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts and the project director
for Preventing School Dropout with Secondary Students: The Implementation of an Individualized
Reading Intervention and Dropout Prevention Intervention at the Meadows Center for
Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin.
Her research interests include
teacher effectiveness, the impacts of professional development on teacher learning and student
achievement, interventions for students with reading difficulties at all ages, and how leadership
influences school culture and climate.