Dr. Roger Farr has been working on the strategies employed in Power Up! Building Reading Strength for more than a decade. He has conducted hundreds of workshops and seminars with teachers through the years, has been directly involved with students in applying these strategies, and has received feedback from many teachers who have used the techniques successfully in their classrooms. Applying this research to Power Up! Building Reading Strategies, Dr. Farr has developed effective and easy-to-use strategies for both teaching and learning reading comprehension.

A teacher of kindergarten through graduate school, Dr. Farr is a senior author of Signatures and Collections, both K–6 reading programs from Harcourt School Publishers. He also serves as a special consultant to Harcourt on assessment and measurement. He is Professor Emeritus of Education and Director of the Center for Innovation in Assessment at Indiana University . Dr. Farr is a former president of the International Reading Association. In 1984, the IRA honored Dr. Farr for outstanding lifetime contributions to the teaching of reading. That same year, he was elected to the IRA Reading Hall of Fame, and in 1988, he was selected by the IRA as the Outstanding Reading Teacher Educator.