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Your colleagues want to hear about your professional writing. If you have a new article or book out, please post it here with a little description and relevant information. You might get some readers! Or, perhaps an invitation to talk about it on NWP Radio. (That's cool.)

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Posted by Steven Zemelman
June 3, 2012 at 6:37pm

Since Elyse asked about new publications:

The 4th edition of Best Practice has now been out from Heinemann for 3 months, co-authored once again by me, Smokey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde. It has a new subtitle: "Bringing Standards to Life in America's Schools." It has reviews of the Common Core Standards, in the reading, writing & math chapters. It focuses much more specifically on 7 structures that great teachers use -- such as gradual release of responsibility, workshop, collaborative groups, etc. And it's filled with fresh stories of real classrooms so teachers can visualize how high quality teaching and learning work.

An accompanying video will be available in August (if all goes well), featuring 40 short but pithy views of classrooms with intense learning going on (unscripted, we can assure you). These illustrate the 7 structures explored in the book.

In this time when teachers are under intense pressure, struggling to align with the new standards, and experiencing brutal budget cuts and unwarranted attacks, we hope this book will help teachers continue to do great, progressive work that serves children well.

  --Steve Zemelman, Illinois Writing Project

Posted by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
July 13, 2012 at 9:10pm

Morehead Writing Project just published this note about one of their TCs with a piece in English Journal:

Trent publishes research in national venues

July 2012 English Journal

Summer Institute Co-Director Brandie Trent, an English teacher at Fleming County High School, recently published an article in the July 2012 issue of English Journal, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. The article, “Everything . . . Affects Everything”: Promoting Critical Perspectives toward Bullying with Thirteen Reasons Why,” was researched and written with Dr. James Chisholm, formerly of Morehead State University and now at the University of Louisville.

The article describes the lessons that Trent’s students learned about bullying through young adult literature, specifically Thirteen Reasons Why, and literature circles.

Trent and Chisholm will also present the results of this project at the NCTE 2012 Annual Convention in the session “From Text to World: Using Young Adult Literature to Promote Critical Perspectives toward Bullying” as part of a panel “Critically Thinking: Using Young Adult Literature and Wikipedia to Encourage Critical Stances.”

Trent has also been asked to lead a session focused on digital literacy at NCTE. Trent regularly leads professional development sessions featuring digital storytelling for the Morehead Writing Project and has also presented on this topic for the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English and the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education.

Trent and Chisholm also collaborated on a project studying the issues of place and identity through students’ digital stories which they presented at the 2012 NCTE Applied Research Conference and will share again at the 2012 Kentucky Writing Project State Conference.

Posted by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
September 1, 2012 at 3:18pm

The Killing Jar, a novel by Gloria Nixon-John (Red Cedar Writing Project TC) and Robert W. Noelker, is avail for pre-order on Amazon. (Neverland Press and  Media).  Gloria is available for book talks for both small and large groups.  This book is based on the story of one of the youngest Americans to have been charged with a capital crime, and it is of interest to child advocacy groups, and students of criminal justice.  Multi-genre in nature it is a unique text.

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