Ronda Fritz is an Associate Professor of Education, specializing in elementary education and early literacy instruction at Eastern Oregon University. 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 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 in-service teacher professional development. Ronda’s current research includes investigating the ways teacher knowledge of reading instruction impacts teacher efficacy and student outcomes, and the impact of one-on-one tutoring delivered by pre-service teachers.

Ronda currently is a member of the International Dyslexia Association, Council for Learning Disabilities and The Reading League. Ronda is the founder and Executive Director of the EOU Reading Clinic which serves struggling readers of the Eastern Oregon region while training pre-service and in-service teachers in evidence-based methods for teaching literacy.