Dr. Julie Taylor is one of Jan Richardson's premier guided reading consultants, often referred to as "the next best thing to having Jan Richardson herself!" She began working as a guided reading trainer in Pinellas County, FL, where she worked with, and was trained by Jan Richardson over the course of several years. Over the past seven years, Julie has provided guided reading professional development, training, lesson modeling, and coaching to hundreds of teachers, staff, interventionists, coaches, reading specialists, and administrators.

Julie continues to travel throughout the United States and internationally providing Next Step guided reading training. She specializes in a systematic, supportive implementation of Jan's guided reading framework in schools, a scaling-up model for large districts and across state departments of education, a train-the-trainer models for literacy coaches, and aligning Jan's Next Step guided reading with current Science of Reading approaches and literacy programs.