From gutierrkd at berkeley.edu Mon Aug 31 02:49:41 2026 From: gutierrkd at berkeley.edu (Kris D Gutierrez) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:49:41 -0700 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Message from P David In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Colleagues, Our esteemed colleague, mentor and beloved friend, David Pearson, passed away this morning after battling cancer. More details to follow. Many of us, indeed the field, are so indebted to David for his transformational work and leadership in reading. And many of us will have many stories to share about how he made our lives and scholarship so much better. His work was always oriented toward social good and his openness and generosity made him an invaluable colleague, dean, and friend. I am so proud that he was a mentor since I was an undergraduate. Here's to you, David. Kris Kris D. Guti?rrez Distinguished Professor & Carol Liu Chair Berkeley School of Education University of California, Berkeley 2121 Berkeley Way Berkeley, Ca 94720-1670 gutierrkd at berkeley.edu Member, National Academy of Education Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, British Academy Fellow, ISLS and AERA On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 12:18?AM Colin Harrison < colin.harrison at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi everyone > > David has asked me to post this: > > Family, Friends, Neighbors, and Colleagues > > > Here's the latest update on my plan to share updates about my cancer. > > > I am keeping a journal that I?d like to share with folks who want to > follow my progress in dealing with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. I will > post the journal on a website that anyone who has the link can go back to > at any time to check on the latest developments. The link will stay the > same, but the journal will grow as I add entries. It will chronicle the > development, treatment, and sense I am making of this encounter with > bladder cancer. > > > The primary audience for the journal is me. I want to document the > experience as a way of confronting and understanding it. The secondary > audience is the collection of family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues > who might like to be kept abreast of the journey. I have no desire to > impose these updates on those who have no desire to receive them. And I am > hoping this approach will minimize their email burden. > > > Two ways to participate: > > 1. If you click this link > , > it will take you directly to ?pdavidpearson?s Bladder Cancer Journal.? You > can bookmark and return to that link at any time to find the most recent > version of the Journal, with new additions added regularly. > 2. Additionally, if you give me your permission, by responding with an > affirmative email to ppearson at berkeley.edu, I?ll add you to a list of > folks to whom I will send a simple reminder when I have added newsworthy > developments or reflections. Just tell me that you would like to be added > to the notification list. > > The Journal can be read by any person who has email, a web browser, and > the link. You won't need a special word processing app or a google account > or even Adobe reader. > > > If you got this far, thanks for reading. Hope you sign on to the journey. > > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Reading-hall-of-fame mailing list > Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk > https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/reading-hall-of-fame > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From viviang at upenn.edu Mon Aug 31 16:49:52 2026 From: viviang at upenn.edu (Gadsden, Vivian Lynette) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:49:52 +0000 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Message from P David In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Kris? Thank you for letting us know. A fine colleague and person and an extraordinary leader in our field. Vivian Get Outlook for iOS ________________________________ From: Reading-hall-of-fame on behalf of Kris D Gutierrez Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2026 9:50 PM To: Colin Harrison Cc: reading hall of fame Subject: Re: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Message from P David Colleagues, Our esteemed colleague, mentor and beloved friend, David Pearson, passed away this morning after battling cancer. More details to follow. Many of us, indeed the field, are so indebted to David for his transformational work and leadership in reading. And many of us will have many stories to share about how he made our lives and scholarship so much better. His work was always oriented toward social good and his openness and generosity made him an invaluable colleague, dean, and friend. I am so proud that he was a mentor since I was an undergraduate. Here's to you, David. Kris Kris D. Guti?rrez Distinguished Professor & Carol Liu Chair Berkeley School of Education University of California, Berkeley 2121 Berkeley Way Berkeley, Ca 94720-1670 gutierrkd at berkeley.edu Member, National Academy of Education Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, British Academy Fellow, ISLS and AERA On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 12:18?AM Colin Harrison > wrote: Hi everyone David has asked me to post this: Family, Friends, Neighbors, and Colleagues Here's the latest update on my plan to share updates about my cancer. I am keeping a journal that I?d like to share with folks who want to follow my progress in dealing with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. I will post the journal on a website that anyone who has the link can go back to at any time to check on the latest developments. The link will stay the same, but the journal will grow as I add entries. It will chronicle the development, treatment, and sense I am making of this encounter with bladder cancer. The primary audience for the journal is me. I want to document the experience as a way of confronting and understanding it. The secondary audience is the collection of family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who might like to be kept abreast of the journey. I have no desire to impose these updates on those who have no desire to receive them. And I am hoping this approach will minimize their email burden. Two ways to participate: 1. If you click this link, it will take you directly to ?pdavidpearson?s Bladder Cancer Journal.? You can bookmark and return to that link at any time to find the most recent version of the Journal, with new additions added regularly. 2. Additionally, if you give me your permission, by responding with an affirmative email to ppearson at berkeley.edu, I?ll add you to a list of folks to whom I will send a simple reminder when I have added newsworthy developments or reflections. Just tell me that you would like to be added to the notification list. The Journal can be read by any person who has email, a web browser, and the link. You won't need a special word processing app or a google account or even Adobe reader. If you got this far, thanks for reading. Hope you sign on to the journey. David _______________________________________________ Reading-hall-of-fame mailing list Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/reading-hall-of-fame -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steve.graham at asu.edu Mon Aug 31 17:07:50 2026 From: steve.graham at asu.edu (Steve Graham) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:07:50 +0000 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Reading-hall-of-fame Digest, Vol 207, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: David's passing is a huge loss for those of us who care about literacy. He was tireless in his efforts to promote reading and those who studied it. I did not get to know him personally until the last 7 or 8 years, but he is someone you never forget once you met him. I can only imagine how many lives he touched and how many will be saddened by his [assing. 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Re: Message from P David (Gadsden, Vivian Lynette) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:49:52 +0000 From: "Gadsden, Vivian Lynette" To: Kris D Gutierrez , Colin Harrison Cc: reading hall of fame Subject: Re: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Message from P David Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Kris? Thank you for letting us know. A fine colleague and person and an extraordinary leader in our field. Vivian Get Outlook for iOS ________________________________ From: Reading-hall-of-fame on behalf of Kris D Gutierrez Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2026 9:50 PM To: Colin Harrison Cc: reading hall of fame Subject: Re: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Message from P David Colleagues, Our esteemed colleague, mentor and beloved friend, David Pearson, passed away this morning after battling cancer. More details to follow. Many of us, indeed the field, are so indebted to David for his transformational work and leadership in reading. And many of us will have many stories to share about how he made our lives and scholarship so much better. His work was always oriented toward social good and his openness and generosity made him an invaluable colleague, dean, and friend. I am so proud that he was a mentor since I was an undergraduate. Here's to you, David. Kris Kris D. Guti?rrez Distinguished Professor & Carol Liu Chair Berkeley School of Education University of California, Berkeley 2121 Berkeley Way Berkeley, Ca 94720-1670 gutierrkd at berkeley.edu Member, National Academy of Education Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, British Academy Fellow, ISLS and AERA On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 12:18?AM Colin Harrison > wrote: Hi everyone David has asked me to post this: Family, Friends, Neighbors, and Colleagues Here's the latest update on my plan to share updates about my cancer. I am keeping a journal that I?d like to share with folks who want to follow my progress in dealing with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. I will post the journal on a website that anyone who has the link can go back to at any time to check on the latest developments. The link will stay the same, but the journal will grow as I add entries. It will chronicle the development, treatment, and sense I am making of this encounter with bladder cancer. The primary audience for the journal is me. I want to document the experience as a way of confronting and understanding it. The secondary audience is the collection of family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who might like to be kept abreast of the journey. I have no desire to impose these updates on those who have no desire to receive them. And I am hoping this approach will minimize their email burden. Two ways to participate: 1. If you click this link, it will take you directly to ?pdavidpearson?s Bladder Cancer Journal.? 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