?As instructional coach at a large urban high school, Doug Buehl’s iconic Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning is my go-to resource for every course. As a result, students in all disciplines receive content-based strategies that enhance and improve student learning.?
?Peg Grafwallner, MEd, Instructional Coach/Reading Specialist

Doug Buehl has been a teacher, professional development leader, and adolescent literacy consultant for over 40 years. He earned a Masters degree in literacy after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double major in history and political science. During his 33 years in the Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, Doug was a social studies teacher, reading teacher, and reading specialist at Madison East High School and a district literacy support teacher for 13 middle schools and four high schools. His experiences include collaborating with teachers as a school literacy coach, teaching struggling readers, coordinating a schoolwide content area tutoring program, teaching college-preparatory advanced reading, and teaching night school students returning for their high school diplomas. He was named district high school teacher of the year in 1990 and received a distinguished service award from the district.

The best-selling is written by Doug. The fourth edition of classroom strategies for interactive learning. The International Literacy Association. He was an author. Strategies to Enhance Literacy include reading and the high school student. The 1st and 2nd editions were published by Pearson. There are strategies to improve literacy and learning in middle school classrooms. The 3rd edition was published in 2007. He wrote about learning strategies. The Wisconsin Education Association Council is made up of teachers. I have written numerous articles and chapters for nearly two decades. He was the first editor of the newsletter. The exchange. The ILA Secondary Reading Interest Group published it.

At the local, state, and national levels, Doug has been an active literacy professional. He was a founding member of ILA?s Commission on Adolescent Literacy and was a member of the interdisciplinary task force that drafted the national Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches. He was president of the Wisconsin State Reading Association, the ILA Secondary Reading Interest Group, and the Madison Area Reading Council. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Adolescent Literacy Task Force issued its policy recommendations in 2008.

The 1996 recipient of the ILA?s Nila Banton Smith Award was Doug, who was also a member of the Wisconsin State Reading Association?s Friends of Literacy Hall of Fame. The International Literacy Association Secondary Reading Interest Group presented the Thought Leader in Adolescent Literacy award to Doug in 2015.

Doug has worked with teachers at state, national, and international levels. For nearly two decades, he has been an instructor of undergraduate and graduate level courses in adolescent literacy. Jeremy is a social studies teacher at Madison East High School and Christopher is a graduate student at Michigan State University. Doug and his wife, Wendy, are a professional violinist and former middle and high school orchestra teacher. Their two grandsons often insist on reading from a good book.