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Renee Casbergue's research interests focus on early literacy, with an emphasis on children's writing development as supported at home and in early childhood educational settings, and the influence of professional development on preschool teachers' ability to impact children's early language and literacy development. She is director of an Early Reading First project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support the development of centers of early literacy excellence in preschool classrooms serving high poverty families in New Orleans. She has been engaged in the field of literacy education and learning for over twenty five years, first as a teacher and reading specialist for children in second through tenth grades, and then as a faculty member at Tulane University and the University of New Orleans before joining the faculty at LSU. She is a past president of the Literacy Development in Young Children special interest group of the International Reading Association, and is currently chair of the Early Literacy Study Group for the national Literacy Research Association. She co-edits the Focus on Pk&K quarterly for the Association of Childhood Education International (ACEI). She serves on editorial boards for The Reading Teacher, ACEI (Childhood Education, and the Journal of Research in Childhood Education), and Reading Psychology. Her work has been published in the Journal of Reading Behavior (now Journal of Literacy Research), the Journal of Reading, the Journal of Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education among others. She teaches in the graduate literacy program and works extensively with the undergraduate PK-3 Early Childhood teacher preparation program.