Maria Nichols

Maria Nichols is a literacy consultant and the Director of School Innovation for the San Diego Unified School District. She was a former elementary classroom teacher and received the Distinguished Elementary Educator Award from the San Diego chapter of Phi Delta Kappa in 2002.

Nichols is the author of Comprehension Through Conversation and Building Bigger Ideas: A Process for Teaching Purposeful Talk, and she has also been credited online with Expanding Comprehension with Multigenre Text Sets and other literacy titles. Her work has focused on purposeful talk, reading workshop, and comprehension instruction.