Pamela A. Mason

Pamela A. Mason (@DrPamelaMason) is a senior lecturer on education, director of the Language and Literacy master’s program, cochair of the Literacy and Languages concentration, and director of the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab, all at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her professional and research interests encompass the role of culturally sustaining pedagogy in promoting literacy achievement, the interaction of text complexity and background knowledge, qualitative and quantitative literacy assessment, and the efficacy of the roles of reading specialists and literacy coaches. Mason has extensive experience as a reading/language arts curriculum coordinator and elementary school principal, serving in both urban and suburban districts in the Boston area. She collaborates with colleagues nationally and globally on preparing reading specialist teachers and literacy coaches, developing the capacity of school leaders as literacy advocates, and evaluating schoolwide literacy programs.