Reid School "A Better Choice"

Reid School Team

       Dr. Ethna R. Reid is the founder of the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) and the Reid School. Reid School is a private school whose teachers utilize the ECRI methods of instruction and teaching strategies that maximize the abilities of students to learn. She has been a secondary and elementary teacher, an elementary principal, general elementary supervisor, and a language arts supervisor in the Salt Lake City and Granite School Districts, Utah.
       Dr. Reid received her Ph.D. at the University of Utah in educational administration and studied reading instruction at Boston University, Columbia University, and at the University of Utah. She conducted an analysis of reading clinics at the University of Chicago, St. Louis Public Schools, and at Southern Methodist University.
       Dr. Reid directs the Reid School and Learning Center in Salt Lake City. She has been an adjunct assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Utah, a visiting professor at the University of California at Irvine, Santa Barbara, Davis, Santa Cruz, and Riverside, and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina system. She offers credit through Brigham Young University and California State University at Fullerton and other universities throughout the United States when teachers attend ECRI seminars.

       Dr. Reid has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association (IRA) and is a former president and state chairperson for the Utah council of IRA.
       She is author of the Random House Reading Program and 22 teacher texts in teaching reading and language arts, coauthor of an Informal Reading Inventory, and author of three other assessments. She has published and mailed to educators The Reader throughout the nation for 26 years.
       From 1974 through 1996 ECRI was validated as a developer/demonstrator project in the National Diffusion Network's Recognition Division of the U.S. Department of Education (USDE).
       Because of students' significant achievement gains when teachers implement ECRI in their classrooms, ECRI was selected from 1999 through 2004 by USDE as a Research-based School Reform Model Program, by the Education Commission of the States as a model reading program, and by the American Federation of Teachers as an exemplary program for regular education students and as a remedial or tutorial program. It has also been identified by the State of Texas as a model reading/language arts program, and by the National Advisory Panel of the National Education Association and the National Staff Development Council as a model reading program that works in elementary, middle and high schools.
       ECRI was evaluated as playing a primary role in the United States becoming a nation of readers. The Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement published Implementing the Recommendations of "Becoming a Nation of Readers." This document makes a line-by-line comparison of 31 reading programs, including ECRI. Dr. Reid's program received the highest score of all 31 programs in meeting the specific recommendations of the National Commission on Reading.
       Research in instructional strategies conducted by Dr. Reid has been nationally disseminated. She has taught educators in 48 states, in Mexico, Panama, Canada, and Japan. She and her staff teach over 4,000 teachers each year.
   Dr. Reid is coauthor of a computer program also used at Reid School. This, too, is a nationally validated project through the USDE.

       Dr. Mervin R. Reid, president of Reid School Inc., received his Doctorate of Public Administration from Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has been secretary of Great Basin Educational Services Corporation and general partner in Reid Associates since 1975. In 1976 he became president of Cove Publishers and in 1978, vice president of Reid Foundation.
       Dr. Reid received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a Master of Science degree in zoology at the University of Utah. He completed his academic work towards his Ph.D. in entomology. He served as administrator of environmental services in the Davis County Health Department and director of the Bureau of General Sanitation, Utah Department of Health.
       Author of numerous publications, Dr. Reid has authored many of Utah’s regulations and booklets pertaining to environmental health.
       Active in community affairs, and particularly in the Boy Scouts, serving as Spring Creek District assistant commissioner, Dr. Reid has received honors such as the Spring Creek District Scouting Award of Merit.
       In Reid Associates, Dr. Reid serves as director of personnel, and has, since 1975 been responsible for payroll and accounting services.

       Teachers at Reid School have teaching certificates, have excellent backgrounds in education, are well qualified for their positions, have received specialized in-service to teach at Reid School, and are dedicated to their students’ education. They have attended university classes to learn to use ECRI, KRS, and ECLE in their various classrooms.
   Reid School staff recognize the importance of communicating and collaborating with parents.
   Reid School teachers register in the summer and during the school year to learn the Reid School teaching techniques. Click here to see the Reid School teaching techniques.