Roger Stewart is a professor at Boise State University.  Dr. Stewart completed his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University in 1989.  He specializes in content area reading at all grade levels and is particularly interested in classroom culture and its influence on literacy teaching and learning.  For over a decade, he has been involved in school improvement projects at classroom, school, and district levels.  Dr. Stewart also served as an assessment literacy guide with the CHPS initiative through the Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies.