Valerie Fraser

In 2025 Valerie Fraser retired after more than twenty years at Collaborative Classroom, during which she held senior leadership positions in both the program development and publishing areas of the organization. In addition to serving as Senior Vice President for Program Development and Publishing, Valerie was the lead editor on the original Making Meaning project, worked with John Shefelbine and Kit Newman in the development of multiple editions of SIPPS, and led the conceptualization and development of Collaborative Classroom’s Being a Reader program.

Prior to joining the team at Collaborative Classroom, Valerie was a developmental editor in elementary educational publishing at Prentice-Hall and in graduate-level textbooks at Allyn and Bacon (Pearson). She has also volunteered as a reading coach in public schools. Valerie has a BA in modern languages and literatures from the University of Toronto.