Rate My Professor Laurie Stowell

Laurie Stowell is a Professor Emerita of literacy in the School of Education at California State University, San Marcos, where she joined the faculty in 1992, shortly after the university's founding. Prior to her academic career, she taught middle school for eleven years in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her Ph.D. in language, literature, and reading from The Ohio State University. Stowell coordinates the Middle Level Education Multiple Subject Credential Program and has taught literacy courses in the middle level and elementary credential programs, children’s literature, and writing and assessment courses in the master’s program. She served as Director of the School of Education from January 2021 until the summer of 2024. In 2001, she founded and continues to direct the San Marcos Writing Project, an invitational professional development institute supporting K-12 teachers in enhancing student writing skills. She also co-directs Reading Through the Arts, a program initiated in 2001 that equips educators with strategies to use the arts for improving literacy in K-12 students. Additionally, Stowell has partnered with elementary, middle, and high school teachers in San Diego and Riverside Counties to develop and implement reading strategies and writing instruction.