It is our pleasure to welcome our 2009 Meadows Fellow, Dr. Nicole Block. Block joins MCPER from a joint doctoral program at Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University in California, where she attained her Ph.D. in education with a concentration in special education. Her dissertation is entitled A Study of a Response to Intervention Model for Urban Sixth-Grade: Analyzing Reading, Language, and Learning Differences in Tier 1 and Tier 2.