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Ronda Fritz, Ph.D.

Ronda Fritz

Education Faculty

Phone: 541.962.3380
Email: rfritz@eou.edu
Office: ZH-234
Schedule an Appointment: https://fritz-education.youcanbook.me
Office Hours Zoom Link: https://eou.zoom.us/j/5419623380

  • Ph.D. in Special Education: University of Oregon
  • BA in Elementary Education: Boise State University
  • MA in Education and Reading

Ronda Fritz is an Associate Professor of Education, specializing in elementary education and early literacy instruction. Prior to coming to EOU, Ronda was a K-12 teacher for 19 years. She taught kindergarten, Title I Reading, middle school Language Arts, 4th and 5th grade, and ended her K-12 teaching career as a Reading Specialist, where she discovered a passion for developing systems and interventions for improving outcomes for struggling readers. This passion led her to University of Oregon’s Special Education department where she received her Ph.D. in 2016. Her research interests include prevention and intervention of reading difficulties, teacher preparation, and the link between behavior and academic outcomes. Ronda is currently investigating the ways teacher knowledge of reading instruction impacts teacher efficacy and student outcomes.

Ronda currently serves a Secretary for the Oregon Council for Exceptional Children. She is also a member of the Council for Learning Disabilities and The Reading League, and serves as a board member for the Children’s Institute. Ronda is the founder and Executive Director of the EOU Reading Clinic which serves struggling readers of the region while training pre-service and in-service teachers in evidence-based methods for teaching literacy.

Courses Taught
ED 202 Linguistic and Cognitive Development
ED 383/483 Individual Differences in Elementary and Primary
ED 412 Student Teaching Seminar
ED 437 Emergent Literacy
ED 616/617 Learning/Development/Classroom Dynamics
ECED 317 Literature for Young Children
ED 384 Exceptionality: Elementary
ED 560 Foundations of Literacy Learning
ED 561 Emergent Literacy
ED 590 Foundations of Literacy, and Dyslexia
ED 591 Language, the Reading Brain, and Dyslexia
ED 592 Literacy & Dyslexia Assessment
ED 593 Structured Literacy Intervention Methods
ED 594 Field Placement: Assessment & Intervention of Reading Difficulties
EDU 312 Classroom Management
EDU 314 Intro to Elementary Literacy
EDU 318: Early Literacy Methods
EDU 320: Exceptionalities
EDU 615: Elementary Classroom Management
EDU 625: Early Literacy Foundations Methods