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Areas of Expertise (html and pdf files)

Multisensory approaches to reading & writing
(selected articles, click on the type of file to read ) 

Chicken bone epiphanies (pdf)
from Voices from the Middle

Teaching like you mean it (pdf)
from Pedagogy

Out of the box (pdf)
from Voices from the Middle

Losing the product in the process (pdf)
from English Journal 

From tripod to cosmos: A new metaphor for the language arts (pdf)
from English Journal

The Tao of instructional models (html)
from The Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts

Teaching teachers how to reach the reluctant reader through multimedia (html)
from Society for information technology in teacher education yearbook 2002

Supercharging the classroom for reading and writing  (html)
from Virginia English Bulletin

Books on teaching writing
(click on the type of file to read ) 

Teaching adolescents to write: The unsubtle art of naked teaching. New York, NY: Allyn & Bacon.  Excerpt from chapter 7.

Going Bohemian: Engaging adolescents in the art of writing well. Newark: DE: International Reading Association. Awarded “best book in education” by Independent Publisher in 2001. Lesson plan on 120-word sentence.

Books on "the good life"
(click on the type of file to read ) 

How to get a life: Empowering wisdom from thinkers and writers (html)
Atlanta, GA: Humanics. Excerpt from the Chapter on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

How to get a life: Empowering wisdom for the heart and soul (html)
Atlanta, GA: Humanics.  Excerpt from the introduction.

 

 

 

 

The amelioration of public schools
(selected articles, click on the type of file to read ) 

Learning from the World (pdf)
from Phi Delta Kappan

Deconstructing teacher certification (pdf)
from Phi Delta Kappan

A School for the Common Good (pdf)
from Educational Horizons

Does Horace Mann Still Matter? (pdf)
from Educational Horizons

We want to see the teacher (pdf)
from Phi Delta Kappan

We still want to see the teacher (pdf)
from Phi Delta Kappan

Disengagement and loathing in high school  (pdf)
from Educational Horizons

High stakes hustle: Public schools and the new, billion dollar accountability (pdf)
from Educational Forum

The public school as wasteland (html)
from Contemporary Education

Future schlock (pdf)
from Phi Delta Kappan

Celebrating mediocrity: How schools shortchange gifted students (html)
from Roeper Review

Coaching: Last bastion of academic excellence? (pdf)
from The Clearing House

The Bozo Syndrome (html)
from Teachers College Record

In search of the educational establishment  (pdf)
from Educational Horizons

One step forward, three steps backward: Alternative certification programs in Texas, Georgia, and Florida. (pdf)
from Educational Horizons

Generic engineering: The standardization of teacher education (html)
from Journal of Thought