From Ailing Kong David and I published this article in Research in the Teaching of English in 2003. It was about how Ellen, a classroom teacher, engaged her students from diverse backgrounds in learning to read, to think, to write about and discuss about what they read. This piece was granted the Alan C. Purves […]
This book chapter published in the National Reading Conference Yearbook, 46th Edition, stands out to me as one of the more wonderful researcher/public school teacher collaborations of my career. Wow — the amount of work and thinking we did as we facilitated 8th graders’ understandings of the Michigan English Language Arts Framework standards at the […]
This is the last of a series of 3 empirical papers on the work that a team of us, led by Barbara, wrote based on our six year line of work trying to unmask the elements of successful reform in early literacy. Within the CIERA School Change Framework, Professional Development and Professional Learning Communities were […]
Jan and Gerry and Laura and I put this piece together after Jan left CSR (Center for the Study of Reading) and headed up to MSU to work at IRT (Institute for Research on Teaching)—I think??? Jan? Gerry? Laura? We also wrote a companion piece in WRSTTT, 2nd edition: Pearson, P. D., Roehler, L., Dole, […]
This chapter summarizes a multi-year effort to examine the efficacy of teacher research as a model of teacher learning and professional development. […]