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40 Days and 40 Bytes
Authors: Spiegel Aaron , Armstrong Nancy , Bill Brent
Published: March 2024

"Today we are awash in computerized Bible games, pastoral care software, and church management systems with members’ personal information and giving records," observe authors Spiegel, Armstrong, and Bill, but "too often we blindly accept and use technology without asking the big questions. Questions like, is it appropriate to our mission and ministry?" 40 Days and 40 Bytes will help your congregation explore technology so you can decide, from a ministry and culture standpoint, what you need to do. The goal: godly service—not technological glitz. The authors are uniquely qualified to help you think about the role of technology in your congregation. All three are staff members with the Indianapolis Center for Congregations, which launched the innovative Computers and Ministry Grants Initiative in 1998 to help congregations address the challenges they face when using computer technology in their ministries. In this book, they share what they have learned in their work with 102 congregations. There’s no question your congregation is going to use computer technology. The only question is, "How?" 40 Days and 40 Bytes will help you design technology that fits your ministry and mission.
A Generous Presence
Authors: Melander Rochelle
Published: March 2024

A Generous Presence is a collection of story-driven essays about the philosophy, tools, and work of coaching that is designed to support all spiritual leaders in deepening and enriching their personal and professional relationships. By practicing the coaching tools Rochelle Melander offers, spiritual leaders will be better equipped to guide those they work with toward accepting the past, creating a life vision, and setting goals for the future. Additionally, the tools provided in this book will help leaders understand themselves and enable them to strengthen their definitions for healthy living, raise their awareness about their own life and relationship skills, and improve their skills in relating to individuals and groups.
A New And Right Spirit
Authors: Barger Rick
Published: March 2024

In a postmodern culture shaped by consumerism, it’s little wonder that there is confusion about what the church is supposed to be in the 21st century. In A New and Right Spirit, Rick Barger argues passionately for congregations to reexamine what it means to be an "authentic church" in a culture where authenticity is hard to come by. He demonstrates the pitfalls of technical solutions to congregational problems and shows the way to making adaptive change. Recognizing the spiritual needs of a success-oriented society, he exhorts leaders to turn away from the story of our culture and to return to the story of the church that is grounded in Christ and the resurrection.
Active Spirituality
Authors: Groff Kent  Ira
Published: March 2024

A practical guidebook for the inquiring layperson seeking a holistic, intelligent look at the spiritual life, and for the pastor or religious professional seeking a systematic framework and spiritual practices to re-ignite the flame of faith. Groff explains what it means to believe and what to do after you say you believe-through a unique integration of spirituality and service, heart and mind, and various faith traditions. Explore five spiritual disciplines: community, solitude, learning, service, and vocation. Great for study groups.
Be Not Afraid!
Authors: Roberts Frederic M.
Published: March 2024

In this in-depth study of eight diverse mainline Protestant congregations, anthropologist Fredric Roberts finds that when local congregations are evaluated by spiritual and religious standards instead of corporate- or pop-culture-based values there remains much to celebrate. Roberts recommends that congregations work to discover their own uniqueness and to build upon the strength that already exist among its own members. Be Not Afraid! is a guide to help congregations rediscover their true calling to be nurturing faith communities, committed to spreading the good news and making disciples.
Be Still
Authors: Vennard Jane E.
Published: March 2024

Many people long for a deeper relationship with God, yearning for silence in a noisy world and a respite from busyness. Written for lay and ordained leaders who wish to bring the gift of space and silence to members who feel called to the contemplative journey, the book introduces the purpose of retreats, provides a theological and biblical understanding of the model, and offers guidance for designing and leading these gatherings. Sample retreats, a design for home retreats, and suggested resources are included.
Can Our Church Live?
Authors: Mann Alice
Published: March 2024

Nothing on earth lives forever—not even congregations. Alban Institute senior consultant Alice Mann explains how the natural life cycle of a congregation, as well as other internal and external factors, can produce a congregation that is in real trouble. She then offers hope for congregations that want to change. Practical options for congregations, leadership challenges for laity and clergy, and ways to work with denominations are detailed and engaging discussion questions provide a basis for congregational planning
Claiming the Beatitudes
Authors: Howard Anne Sutherland
Published: March 2024

“In troubles times, hope often seems elusive, a vague promise of the future. But Anne Howard transforms hope into a tangible practice of faith by sharing the stories of young adults who take Jesus’ beatitudes both literally and seriously. Read Claiming the Beatitudes and glimpse a transformational wisdom for church that grounds life in God’s beauty, truth, and goodness.” - Diana Butler Bass, author, Christianity for the Rest of Us and A People’s History of Christianity

“Anne Howard interprets each beatitude through the story of a present-day student as well as Jesus’ beatitudes. She brings the beatitudes into our experience now, beautifully, readably, so we can answer the question, ‘Where do you see God’s presence in our world?’ And so we can say, ‘yes, thanks’ to God’s invitation to participate.” - Glen Harold Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary

“By focusing on how Jesus’ beatitudes are actually being lived in the lives of twenty-and thirty-somethings today, Anne Howard accomplishes what few before her have done; she takes the beatitudes out of the realm of pietistic platitudes or arcane academics and puts flesh and blood on them. In so doing, she instills a craving in each of us to wrap our own lives around these simple yet revolutionary words.” - Eric Elnes, author of The Phoenix Affirmations and Asphalt Jesus

“Can the beatitudes come alive for us today? The moving stories and compelling reflections of Claiming the Beatitudes say ‘Yes!’ The questions at the end of each chapter offer true-to-life challenges. The entire book is an invitation to conversation and conversion. Try it!” - Bishop Frederick Borsch, Professor of New Testament, Chair of Anglican Studies, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Clergy, Retirement, and Wholeness
Authors: Halaas Gwen Wagstrom
Published: March 2024

What would you wish for in retirement? Good health? Financial Stability? A supportive social community? Retiring well is everyone’s goal, but accomplishing this end requires planning and effort. Family physician Gwen Halaas recognizes the challenges professional caregivers such as clergy experience as they try to practice good self-care, particularly as they approach the significant changes inherent in retirement.
Cross-Shaped Leadership
Authors: Berntsen John A.
Published: March 2024

For Lutheran pastor John Berntsen, the cross is about more than the crucifixion on Good Friday. It is shorthand for the whole drama of salvation--God's decisive act of reconciling the world to God's own self. The cross is dying and rising with Christ, but at a deeper level it is the story of the world's resistance to grace. Those who lead are subject to the cross no less than others. In contrast with the current fashion for "visionary" or "purpose-driven" leaders, cross-shaped leaders are not primarily the providers of master plans, nor are they master builders. Cross-shaped leadership is provisional, contextual, and fallible--open-ended ministry that has the character of a pilot project. It is always under construction and revision.

Our moment-by-moment functioning in ministry is subject to countless deaths and resurrections, few of which are heroic or glorious. But Berntsen offers good news within this potentially dismal perspective. He writes, "Once we've accepted the truth that ministry is hard, even impossible--once we've stopped living in denial of this reality, or perhaps whining about it--it becomes the truth that sets us free. We cease being gloomy servants, weighed down by our resentful conviction that we are all alone in our work--the closet atheism born of the worry, 'If I don t do it, nobody will'--and instead become joyful coworkers of a strong, wise, and consoling Lord." With optimism, humor, and deep empathy, Berntsen's Cross-Shaped Leadership offers hope and challenge in the midst of the rough and tumble of parish practice.
Getting the Word Out
Authors: Gonnerman Frederick H.
Published: March 2024

High quality publications and public relations will enhance a congregation's overall ministry by promoting strong stewardship, effective evangelism, and exciting parish education. Getting the Word Out provides all the tools congregations need to create attention-grabbing, informative, and inspiring communications. Frederick H. Gonnerman shows readers how to assess their audience and the competition for the audience's attention; identify a publication's purpose; and create useful, readable, and attractive publications-whether print or online, for the congregation or a broader community.
Growing in Authority, Relinquishing Control
Authors: Hahn Celia Allison
Published: March 2024

Contents include:

I. What is authority? and Where do you get it?

II. Patterns of Growth in Authority

III. Practical Dilemmas in the Exercise of Authority

IV. Authority in Different Voices

V. The Paradoxical Authority of Laity and Clergy

VI. Growing in Authority, Being the Church
In Search of the Church
Authors: Russell Keith A.
Published: March 2024

Contents:

Preface

I. Introduction: In Search of the Church

II. Mark: An Alternative Community

III. Matthew: Households of Justice

IV. Luke: Signs of the Kingdom

V. Paul: Communities of Reconciliation

VI. 1 Peter: Homes for the Homeless

VII. The Apocalypse of John: Communities of Resistance

VIII. In Search of the Church: An Invitation
Inside the Large Congregation
Authors: Beaumont Susan
Published: March 2024

For five years, Alban Institute senior consultant Susan Beaumont has been giving voice to the organizational and leadership demands of large congregations. Through her work, she has identified five basic leadership systems that need to stay in alignment for the large church to function well for its size: clergy leadership roles, staff team design and function, governance and board function, acculturation and the role of laity, and forming and executing strategy. She has also learned that these five systems operate with some important but subtle distinctions in what Beaumont calls the professional church (400-800 in worship attendance), the strategic church (800-1,200), and the matrix church (1,200-2,000). Often, she has discovered, problems in a large congregation are related to the fact that one or more of the five systems is inappropriately structured for the size of the congregation. In other words, the church isn't acting its size. Beaumont is invested in helping large congregations 'rightsize' their leadership systems to better serve their ministry context. This book articulates why size matters and how it matters in the world of large congregations. It is written for anyone who wants to better understand the leadership and organizational dynamics of the large church anyone seeking to understand the challenges of leading from inside the large congregation.
Leading through the Water
Authors: Galbreath Paul
Published: March 2024

In Leading through the Water, Paul Galbreath demonstrates one way of linking baptismal practice to daily life as congregations provide an alternative witness to the cultural voices around us. At the same time, it expands the vision of baptism from a single occasion to a distinctive way of life within a community of faith and a primary metaphor for Christian discipleship. In concert with Leading from the Table, Galbreath continues to explore how the sacraments of baptism and communion connect with the world around us. He is concerned that we too often separate church life from daily life, marginalizing the gospel and the good news that God is with us at all times and places in our lives. Here Galbreath explores Christian discipleship through baptism imagery in Scripture, history, and experience, and identifies patterns of baptismal formation that guide the choices we make each day. He follows the individual's journey through baptism, beginning with inquiry, through the preparation for baptism, the event of baptism itself, and a time of discernment following baptism. This book will prompt conversations in congregations and classrooms about the ways that our distinct communities of faith can embody the gospel in the world and point to God's faithful presence.
Next Steps in Community Ministry
Authors: Dudley Carl S.
Published: March 2024

Dudley and a research team go back to 24 ministries still in existence five years after the Church and Community Project's completion. They discovered how the myths and expectations of funding, lay/clergy leadership, and church/society partnerships were shattered by what is doable; how the often Herculean efforts frustrated and tired participants, who were then uplifted and sustained by making a difference; and how faith was the foundation for action, and how, through action, the poor, the homeless, and others in need became real people and not statistics.
One Bread, One Body
Authors: Hawn C. Michael
Published: March 2024

As a troubadour for global music and an instigator of cross-cultural worship for more than 15 years in a variety of denominational settings, including congregational, national, and international venues, Michael Hawn has observed many faithful people who find that a taste of Pentecost in worship is refreshing and invigorating. In One Bread, One Body: Exploring Cultural Diversity in Worship, Hawn seeks to help bridge the gap between the human tendency to prefer ethnic and cultural homogeneity in worship and the church's mandate to offer a more diverse and inclusive experience. He offers a rainbow vision of the universal church where young and old joyfully and thoughtfully respond to the movement of God's Spirit in multicultural worship. Hawn and four colleagues from Perkins School of Theology in Dallas formed a diverse team in ethnicity, gender, academic field of study, and denominational affiliation to study four United Methodist congregations in the Dallas area that are grappling with cross-cultural ministry. Their four case studies illustrate both the pain and the possibilities encountered in capturing the Spirit of Pentecost in worship. Hawn also offers a concise and practical theological framework as well as numerous strategies and an extensive bibliography for implementing "culturally conscious worship." This book is invaluable for congregations that want to undertake the hard work of cross-cultural worship.
Raising the Roof
Authors: Mann Alice
Published: March 2024

Pastoral-to-program size change is frequently described as the most challenging of growth transitions for congregations. Now Alban senior consultant Alice Mann, author of The In-Between Church: Navigating Size Transitions in Congregations, addresses the difficulties of that transition in this resource designed specifically for a congregational learning team. Conceptualized and developed by Mann for an Alban on-line seminar program test event conducted with 12 congregations in transition, her newest book features a five-step process enabling the learning team to engage a wider circle of congregational leaders and members in study, discernment, and planning. Never-before published resources include discussion of a major new concept—passive barriers to growth—plus Mann’s "System Change Index" tool to help congregations measure their progress from pastoral-size to program-size ways of operating. From preparing the congregation’s board and members, selecting the person to guide the learning process, and recruiting the learning team, to creating and celebrating a plan for congregational learning and action, Mann provides all the resources a congregation needs to address this significant size transition period.
Shaping Spiritual Leaders
Authors: Johnson Abigail
Published: March 2024

Supervision--the shaping of spiritual leaders--occurs formally and informally in many aspects of congregational life. Every year, thousands of pastors supervise field education students and interns; staff members and lay leaders often supervise committee members or other staff; clergy and lay leaders supervise each other as a way to offer support and establish accountability. While supervision enhances the work of all concerned, it is rarely explicitly addressed in congregations. For over fifteen years, Abigail Johnson has supervised and trained others to supervise candidates for ordination within the United Church of Canada. Recognizing that supervision is as important in the formation of lay leaders as in the life of candidates for ordination, she has developed this book to guide all who supervise others in a congregation. Johnson views supervision as a ministry and shows how leaders can use their own innate gifts to enhance their supervision skills. By shaping the supervision relationship based on the gifts of the people involved as well as the context in which the relationship occurs, supervision can become an opportunity for mutual growth and learning that strengthens all other areas of ministry. This book provides a hands-on approach to supervision, addressing key areas such as identifying a learning focus, covenanting, managing conflict, understanding and using power and authority, offering and receiving feedback and evaluation, and celebrating and ending the supervisory relationship. Supervisors who pay attention to these and other key areas will help those they supervise develop their gifts for ministry in all forms.
Teaching Our Story
Authors: Golemon Larry A.
Published: March 2024

Teaching Our Story is based on the premise that as congregations become intentional story-forming communities, they can shape the lives of millions of generative, faithful, and civic-minded adults. To do so, a framework that relates narrative work to the full range of congregational life is needed. This book offers such a framework, featuring essays that examine crucial shapers of narrative, outline a course in preaching that addresses crucial questions for today's church leaders, illuminate the creative power of listening to the collective stories of a faith community, and observe what can happen when first-year seminary students are asked to become story brokers -- integrating the stories from their communities with biblical stories, their own personal stories, and the theological doctrines formed within the story of their tradition
Infrastrukturregulierung in Frankreich und Deutschland
Authors: Busmann Christian
Published: March 2024

At the moment, the public focus lays on the German Federal Network Agency concerning questions of energy supply and distribution. However, the Agency is also competent for issues concerning the national transport- and communication-sectors. These sectors are strongly determined by European law which demands a high level of independence for national regulators. In this context the study examines the development of the French network infrastructure regulators and their actual status of independence compared to the German Federal Network Agency to illustrate possible improvement regarding a stronger independence.
Franz Grillparzer
Authors: Prutti Brigitte
Published: March 2024

Mit 47 Jahren beendet Grillparzer seine aktive Theaterkarriere, mit 80 wird er zum zweiten Mal berühmt. Es gibt von ihm kein eigentliches Alterswerk, aber einige seiner Stücke gelangen erst nach seinem Tod an die Öffentlichkeit. Der 21. Januar 2022 ist sein 150. Todestag. Mein Essay erörtert die Repräsentation des alten Dichters in der Gesprächs- und Erinnerungsliteratur seiner Zeitgenoss*innen und in populären Biographien in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach seinem Tod. Er entwirft ein kleines Altersporträt in zehn Charakteren, mit einigen Seitenblicken auf Eckermanns Gespräche mit Goethe.
Kawasaki Disease Triggered by Septic Arthritis: A Case Report
Authors: Rahmani Khosro , Goudarzi Ehsan , Yousefimoghaddam Fateme , Javadi Vadood , Shiari Reza , Hassas Yeganeh Mehrnoush
Published: March 2024

: We present the case of a 6.5-year-old boy who presented to our center with complaints of pain in both hip joints that had started 10 days prior to admission. Following the diagnosis and treatment of septic arthritis, he developed a fever that did not respond to antibiotics. Subsequently, he was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease triggered by septic arthritis.
Οι γαλλικές σημειώσεις-παραθέματα στα χειρόγραφα των Ελεύθερων πολιορκισμένων και τα πρωτότυπα κείμενα : μια δοκιμή συνανάγνωσης
Authors: Pavlou Kostis
Published: March 2024

The apparent or latent French notes-citations in the manuscripts of Solomos's The Free Besieged reveal both the multilingual nature of Solomos as a reader-copyist and the translingual character of his writing process. Relevant to the latter is the fact that Solomos often proceeds in translating the French passages he reproduces into Italian, without necessarily the context revealing the existence of the French original. More specifically, in recording the notes-citations, Solomos exhausts both the monolingual option of copying (French) and the interlingual possibilities of translating word for word into Italian or of faithfully rendering it in a mixed language (French-Italian). The target of this paper is to compare the Italian translations to the French original texts, aiming on the one hand to identify any discrepancies in Solomos's translation options, and on the other, to examine Solomos's interlingual, if not translingual, process of translating as well as the phenomena of code switching and cross-linguistic influence resulting from it.
Estudio de Caso: Diseño de Políticas Públicas ante el Cambio Climático
Authors:   Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Gómez Sánchez Soto Rubén
Published: March 2024

The design of public policies in the face of climate change” seeks to identify the relationships between several key elements; such as public administration, governance, public policies, results of improvements in the face of climate change, economic growth and more. It is necessary to review what the United Nations and its international organizations point out: “Climate change refers to long-term changes in temperatures and weather patterns” and among its most important impacts are: higher temperatures, intense storms, increased drought, a warming and rising ocean, food shortages, increased health risks, poverty and displacement. This premise supports the effort that nations need to make to improve their governance capacities expressed in their public policies regarding the treatment of climate change. Regarding the mission of the public administration: “Carry out adequate governance of the data managed by the administration through transversal policies to obtain the highest performance from them both internally and on the part of citizens, in the form of economic value and social". For this reason, it highlights the need to reflect and investigate the importance of proposing a model for the design and formulation of public policies in the face of climate change. This last need involves rethinking governance actions and the design of public policies so that public administrations can fulfill their mission.
Usability of inhaler devices: a parameter currently misused
Authors: Dal Negro Roberto W.
Published: March 2024

Inhalation represents the most convenient route for delivering respiratory drugs. Delivery systems showed a huge technological progress and several pocket inhalers had been engineered over the last decades for clinical use. Despite the growing technological efforts aimed to simplify the inhalation procedures and optimize the therapeutic outcomes, the effectiveness of drug inhalation through inhalers still represents a major challenge in respiratory medicine. Patients may actually incur in different types of critical errors when using all inhalers and are not capable to inhale throughout all devices equally well. Therefore, the choice of the most suitable and convenient device to prescribe still is a critical issue in real life. Usability is the only comprehensive parameter consenting the effective and objective assessment of pocket inhalers’ performance, and allowing their objective comparison and ranking. Unpredictable discrepancies are in fact easily detectable between inhalers (even belonging to the same class) in terms of Usability, independently of the patient’s awareness. The reasons were described and discussed for each class of inhalers presently available. Usability is a multidimensional parameter that is much more multifaceted and complex than usually presumed. Usability takes origin from the integrated, balanced and objective assessment of the role played by several factors from different domains, such as: factors related to patient’s beliefs, to patients’ behavioural components, to device engineering and to the overall cost. Usability is the key parameter for assessing and optimizing the appropriateness of any inhalation treatment through whatever device. Usability would also represent a key investigational instrument for supporting the future development of ­innovative and more performing inhaler devices objectively.
Mixed-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma: Insights Into Clinical Behavior and Prognostic Implications Compared to Pure Low-Grade and High-Grade Urothelial Carcinomas
Authors: Khalatbari Fateme , Moafi-Madani Miremad , Amin Ali
Published: March 2024

Context.—

Low-grade urothelial carcinoma (LGUC) and high-grade urothelial carcinoma (HGUC) are distinguished based on architectural and cytologic features, with the anticipation that HGUC exhibits more aggressive behavior and a worse prognosis compared to LGUC. The current World Health Organization classification recognizes mixed-grade urothelial carcinoma (MGUC, for the purposes of this study) as a separate category that behaves like LGUC if the high-grade component is <5% and states that any tumor with ≥5% high-grade component should be graded as HGUC.

Objective.—

To evaluate the risk of tumor recurrence, grade, and stage progression of MGUC compared to LGUC and HGUC.

Design.—

A total of 150 de novo noninvasive polypoid urothelial carcinomas (41 cases of MGUC, 59 of LGUC, and 50 of HGUC) were included. Tumor recurrence, grade, and stage progression were compared among the MGUC, LGUC, and HGUC cases.

Results.—

Tumor recurrence was observed in 14 of 41 (34.2%) cases of MGUC, 33 of 59 (55.9%) cases of LGUC, and 28 of 50 (56%) cases of HGUC. Grade progression occurred in 5 of 41 (12.2%) of MGUC cases and 5 of 59 (8.5%) of LGUC cases. No stage progression was observed in LGUC or MGUC cases, while 7 of 50 (14%) HGUC cases showed stage progression. MGUC was associated with lower odds and hazard of recurrence compared to LGUC. The rate of grade progression was higher in MGUC and occurred after a shorter interval compared to LGUC.

Conclusions.—

MGUC showed a prognosis closer to that of LGUC. Our study supports the current recommendation to classify tumors with <5% high-grade component as MGUC, as these tumors display clinical characteristics and outcomes close to that of pure LGUC.
Being There: (Re)Making the Assessment Scene
Authors: Gallagher Chris W.
Published: March 2024

I use Burkean analysis to show how neoliberalism undermines faculty assessment expertise and underwrites testing industry expertise in the current assessment scene. Contending that we cannot extricate ourselves from our limited agency in this scene until we abandon the familiar “stakeholder” theory of power, I propose a rewriting of the assessment scene that asserts faculty and student agency and leadership for writing assessment.
Toward Graduate-Level Writing Instruction
Authors: Micciche Laura R. , Carr Allison D.
Published: March 2024

Calling for an explicit commitment to graduate-level writing instruction in English studies, the authors describe a critical writing workshop that serves this purpose. The aim of the course is to create a formal curricular space through which students can brainstorm, create, and sustain a wide variety of critical writing projects.
Statement on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty
Authors:   NCTE College Section Working Group on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty
Published: March 2024

This policy statement from a committee of the NCTE College Section identifies problems with the discipline’s dependence on contingent faculty and makes recommendations for better treatment of them.
Discourse of the Firetenders: Considering Contingent Faculty through the Lens of Activity Theory
Authors: Doe Sue , Barnes Natalie , Bowen David , Gilkey David , Smoak Ginger Guardiola , Ryan Sarah , Sarell Kirk , Thomas Laura H. , Troup Lucy J. , Palmquist Mike
Published: March 2024

Drawing on work logs kept by participants, the authors report and analyze a project at their university in which contingent faculty recorded the amount of work they actually performed during a week. The authors also recommend ways to enhance the working conditions of such faculty.
Opening the Conversation: A Dialogue with Past Editors Ben Nelms and Michael Moore
Authors: Rush Leslie S. , Scherff Lisa
Published: March 2024

Current editors Leslie Rush and Lisa Scherff talk to past editors Ben Nelms and Michael Moore about ongoing issues in English education.
Emerging Practice for New Teachers: Creating Possibilities for “Aesthetic” Readings
Authors: Dickson Randi , Costigan Arthur
Published: March 2024

This article explores how exposure to aesthetic education approaches can help novice teachers reconsider their literature instruction in an age of mandated curricula and increased pressures to“teach to the test.” The guiding questions were as follows: What similarities exist between transacting with a text on the page and aesthetically engaging with other works of art, and could thesetheories and practices be brought into ELA classrooms? Through freewrites, reflective papers, and a final self-assessment, students documented both their initial resistances and their evolvingunderstandings of aesthetic education. We discovered that involving English education students in aesthetic experiences affected the ways many began to reimagine their classrooms, literacy/literature instruction, and education in general.
Editorial: Opening the Conversation: A Reflection and Commentary with Past Editor Cathy Fleischer
Authors: Leslie S. Rush , Lisa Scherff
Published: March 2024

Past editor Fleischer reflects on questions central to the field of English education. The articles is this issue are then introduced.
Teaching Where We Are: Place-Based Language Arts
Authors: Lundahl Merrilyne
Published: March 2024

How does creating personal metaphors from nature help students develop ecoliteracy?
Research for the Classroom: Review of Narrative Writing: Learning a New Model for Teaching
Authors: Hillocks George , Krickovich Susan R. , Gorlewski David A.
Published: March 2024

Research for the Classroom suggests ways in which high school and middle school English teachers may study the effectiveness of their pedagogy.
Success with ELLs: Developing and Shifting Perspectives
Authors: DelliCarpini Margo
Published: March 2024

Success with ELLs suggests effective approaches to teaching English language learners in ways that can be of benefit to all students in mainstream middle and high school English classes.
The Language of Power: Beyond the Grammar Workbook
Authors: Flynn Jill Ewing
Published: March 2024

Being up front with students about Standard English as “the language of power” allows them to learn valuable lessons about Standard and non-Standard English dialects.
On the Richness of Grammar as an Analytical Lens in the Integrated Language Arts
Authors: Massey Lance
Published: March 2024

Studying grammatical features of Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” and other rich texts can help students better understand how words evoke moods, settings, and more.
Professional Writing in the English Classroom: Beyond Language: The Grammar of Document Design
Authors: Bush Jonathan , Zuidema Leah A.
Published: March 2024

Professional Writing in the English Classroom publishes articles about teaching students to write effectively in the genres, conventions, and visual designs required for professional contexts and related rhetorical situations.
Research for the Classroom: The Power of Reflective Writing
Authors: Greene Katie
Published: March 2024

Research for the Classroom publishes mini-studies of ELA classroom practices and suggests ways in which high school and middle school English teachers may study the effectiveness of their pedagogy.
Research for the Classroom: Becoming Self-Editors: Using Metacognition to Improve Students’ Grammar Knowledge
Authors: Annable Jill
Published: March 2024

Research for the Classroom publishes mini-studies of ELA classroom practices and suggests ways in which high school and middle school English teachers may study the effectiveness of their pedagogy.
Success with ELLs: Make Room for Our Voices: Using Poetry in Professional Development for Secondary ESL and ELA Teachers
Authors: Gulla Amanda Nicole
Published: March 2024

Success with ELLs suggests effective approaches to teaching English language learners in ways that can be of benefit to all students in mainstream middle and high school English classes.
EJ in Focus: Connecting the Classroom, Community, and Curriculum
Authors: Burke Jim
Published: March 2024

Join the popular author and high school teacher as he brings the real world of work to his Generation Y students. He describes class projects, guest speakers, and other ways for helping students develop literacy skills that will help them find gainful employment.
Informal and Shared: Writing to Create Community
Authors: Dean Deborah , Warren Adrienne
Published: March 2024

Informal writing can provide excellent ways to create a classroom community that heightens students’ writing skills.
Powerful Writing: Promoting a Political Writing Community of Students
Authors: Ife Fahima
Published: March 2024

For students to act as responsible citizens, they must become comfortable writing with and about power.
Bridging Gaps and Preserving Memories through Oral History Research and Writing
Authors: Dayton-Wood Amy , Hammonds Laren , Matherson Lisa , Tollison Leah
Published: March 2024

When students interview real people in their communities, they develop a more personal engagement with local history and a greater investment in purposeful research and writing.
Constructing and Engaging Biography: Considerations for High School English Teachers
Authors: Edmondson Jacqueline
Published: March 2024

A teacher and published author of biographies of John Lennon, Jesse Owens, Condoleezza Rice, and others, Edmondson offers great ideas for bringing biography into secondary English classes.
Using Parody to Read and Write Original Poetry
Authors: P. Bintz William
Published: March 2024

Close reading, deep understanding, and fun are just some of the benefits Bintz’s students derive from writing humorous versions of well-known poems.
The Wish List: Articulating and Responding to New Teachers’ Concerns
Authors: Bentley Erinn , Morwa Allison , Short Tammie
Published: March 2024

Although it is possible to cite general trends about the concerns of beginning teachers, each beginner will have specific needs and questions.
Collaborative Co-Mentoring for the Novice and the Experienced English Teacher
Authors: Bickmore Steven T.
Published: March 2024

If the experience of teaching is going to keep newly minted teachers committed to the profession, they will have to find ways to break away from the traditional isolationof teaching.
Success with ELLs: Assessing ELL Students in Mainstream Classes: A New Dilemma for the Teachers
Authors: Guler Nilufer
Published: March 2024

“Success with ELLs” suggests effective approaches to teaching English language learners in ways that can be of benefit to all students in mainstream middle and high school English classes.
EJ in Focus: Teaching English in the Age of Incarceration
Authors: Hill Marc Lamont
Published: March 2024

Incarceration rates are increasing at alarming rates, and schools are profoundly affected by the logic and imperatives of mass incarceration. English teachers must take action.
A World without Prisons: Teaching Confinement Literature and the Promise of Prison Abolition
Authors: Hill Marc Lamont
Published: March 2024

Exposing students to canonical and contemporary slave, political, personal, and non-carceral confinement literatures provides space for discussing important issues of social justice.
Using To Kill a Mockingbird as a Conduit for Teaching about the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Authors: Maher Steffany Comfort
Published: March 2024

Using a response-based cultural studies approach, the author engages students in contemporary issues of incarceration: single-parent homes, lynching and racial discrimination, the criminal justice system, and poverty.
Professional Writing in the English Classroom: Professional Collaborative Writing: Teaching, Writing, and Learning—Together
Authors: Bush Jonathan , Zuidema Leah
Published: March 2024

“Professional Writing in the English Classroom” publishes articles about teaching students to write effectively in the genres, conventions, and visual designs required for professional contexts and related rhetorical situations.
Embracing Intercultural Diversification: Teaching Young Adult Literature with Native American Themes
Authors: Metzger Kenan , Box Andrea , Blasingame James
Published: March 2024

Native American and non–Native American students can develop a richer understanding of US literary and cultural history by studying Native American themes.
Pencils Down: Is Mimicking the Behaviors of “Good Readers” Bad for Good Readers?
Authors: Narter David
Published: March 2024

Interrupting the enjoyment of reading with prediction, annotation, vocabulary study, and other add-ons may distract proficient readers from the very kinds of reading we want them to do.
From the Editor
Authors: Lindblom Ken
Published: March 2024

Ken Lindblom has taught English and writing at Columbia High School (East Greenbush, New York), Syracuse University, and Illinois State University, and he is now associate professor of English and director of English teacher education at Stony Brook University (SUNY). He has been editor of English Journal since 2008, and this is the last of the 30 issues he’s edited.
Speaking My Mind: Robo-Grading and Writing Instruction: Will the Truth Set Us Free?
Authors: Perrin Dave
Published: March 2024

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Generating Minds
Authors: Burke Jim
Published: March 2024

How can teachers awaken creativity in students, and what do classrooms that do so look like?
Off the Shelves: Keeping YA Lit Off the Shelves and in Young Readers’ Hands
Authors: Letcher Mark
Published: March 2024

“Off the Shelves” discusses new young adult literature and explores ways of teaching YA texts in middle and high school English classes.
Professional Writing in the English Classroom: Designing a High School or Middle School Course (or Unit) in Professional Writing
Authors: Bush Jonathan , Zuidema Leah
Published: March 2024

“Professional Writing in the English Classroom” publishes articles about teaching students to write effectively in the genres, conventions, and visual designs required for professional contexts and related rhetorical situations.
Speaking My Mind: My Assessment Was Flawed. Forgive Me, Mrs. Farr
Authors: Kane Sharon
Published: March 2024

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Checking In: Using Informal Communication to Assess Learning in the English Language Arts Classroom
Authors: Pappageorge Tim
Published: March 2024

This article explores the use of informal communication as an assessment tool for English language arts teachers.
Access to Books and Time to Read versus the Common Core State Standards and Tests
Authors: Krashen Stephen
Published: March 2024

The author argues that access to books and time to read play a vital role in literacy development and explains why standardized tests are detrimental to students’ literacy development.
Speaking Truth to Power: Our American Future: Creating Critical Citizens in a Democratic Nation
Authors: Pepper Amanda
Published: March 2024

This column seeks to explore the experiences and possibilities that arise when educators speak Truth to power.
A Thousand Writers: Voices of the NWP: Explore, Tinker, and Play: Everything I Need to Know about Teaching Writing I Learned at the Science Museum
Authors: Baker Tanya
Published: March 2024

This column seeks to explore the experiences of National Writing Project teachers as writers, teachers of writing, and educational leaders.
Soft(a)ware in the English Classroom: What’s Worth Sharing?
Authors: Bach Jacqueline , Watson Joseph A.
Published: March 2024

“Soft(a)ware in the English Classroom” seeks to identify the ways in which our teaching and learning lives are influenced by software.
Read Books. Every Day. Mostly for Pleasure.
Authors: Pruzinsky Tim
Published: March 2024

The author advocates for the inclusion of independent reading as a significant element of any high school English curriculum.
Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners: English Learners and Morphology in the Secondary English Classroom: Tools for Teachers
Authors: Lewis Tarie , Reite Michael
Published: March 2024

“Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners” discusses critical, transformative, and powerful ways to support students’ acquisition of Standard English.
Soft(a)ware in the English Classroom: Can You Here Me Now? Speech Recognition Software in Educational Settings
Authors: Mountain Lee
Published: March 2024

“Soft(a)ware in the English Classroom” seeks to identify the ways in which our teaching and learning lives are influenced by software.
Transforming Professional Lives through Online Participation
Authors: Rodesiler Luke , Rami Meenoo , Anderson Gary , Minnich Cindy , Kelley Brian , Andersen Sarah
Published: March 2024

This article draws from a qualitative study investigating five English teachers’ experiences participating online (via blogs, microblogs, and social network sites) in exploration of issues related to teaching, learning, and literacy.
Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners: Engaging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Youth through Performance Poetry
Authors: Ramirez Pablo C.
Published: March 2024

“Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners” discusses critical, transformative, and powerful ways to support students’ acquisition of Standard English.
The Redemptive Power of Sports in the Writing Classroom
Authors: Parsons Cherie
Published: March 2024

One teacher has realized that students do their best work when writing about topics that matter most to them; sports is one of those topics.
Out of the Closet and onto the Playing Field: Two Decades of Lesbian Athletes in YA Literature
Authors: Mason Katherine
Published: March 2024

Using the Identity Formation Model, the author examines the representation of lesbian athletes in young adult literature and suggests that students benefit from reading about characters with a range of sexual and gender identities.
Teacher Perspectives and Classroom Changes during the Standards Movement
Authors: Glaus Marci
Published: March 2024

This article restores a voice to those teachers who do the important work of educating students in classrooms, highlighting the changes taking place during standardization.
Revisiting Dewey in the Age of Common Core: Confessions of an Unwilling Deconstructivist
Authors: Peel Anne
Published: March 2024

This author argues that NCLB has pressured writing teachers to underserve developing writers by replacing inquiry with an emphasis on product.
Enacting Problem-Posing Education through Project-Based Learning
Authors: Behizadeh Nadia
Published: March 2024

This article promotes project-based learning in English education as a way to combat the loss of cultural relevancy under the pressures of standardization.
Focus on Policy: The Right to Be a Fan
Authors: Gutiérrez Peter
Published: March 2024

Reading experts have consistently cited the importance of independent reading, reading for pleasure, and fostering “a love of reading.” Unfortunately, fanning the fire of fan readership is not so easy in the service of our clear-cut and standards-aligned curricula, except perhaps in small, carefully channeled doses. Moreover, the impetus for such a project is innately contradictory in terms of the promises that fandom makes to youth. As educators, we want students to be fans, but we want to restrict it to the palette of choices that we assemble for them. Such an impasse helps explain why there currently exists an uneasy truce, a kind of intellectual demilitarized zone, between the worlds of fandom and education, with the latter extremely suspect of the former. This article addresses fandom as the best chance of uniting in-school and outside-of-school literacies, not to mention helping students develop critical thinking skills and a host of media and “new literacies”—that is, empowering them to become “readers” in the broadest, most meaningful sense of the word.
Climbing Walls: Attempting Critical Pedagogy as a 21st-Century Preservice Teacher
Authors: McGee A. Robin
Published: March 2024

A preservice teacher wants to teach for social justice, but faces challenges effectively engaging in critical pedagogy. Her class of sixth-grade students wants to examine more closely the issues around immigration, and the author is eager to disrupt any one-dimensional stereotypes of immigrants that the students might have picked up from popular culture. Together, they craft a unit of language arts study based upon students’ inquiry. Now a few years into her teaching practice, the author reflects on what worked and what could have gone differently.
“Mano a Mano”: Arts-Based Nonfiction Literacy and Content Area Learning
Authors: Bryce Nadine
Published: March 2024

Imagine walking through a Lenape longhouse on your way to class in the morning, or passing a life-size tree in the center of the hallway on your way to lunch! At the James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy in East Harlem, New York, administrators, teachers, students, families, and community-based artists worked together to create a visually explosive environment that reflected enriched learning experiences based on their multidisciplinary study of New York’s history. Learn more about the integrated curriculum approach using visual art, nonfiction literacy, and content area learning to provide children with broader avenues for their expressions of learning.
Children’s Literature Reviews: The Voices of Language: 2011 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Authors: Hahn Mary Lee , Bedford April , Napoli Mary , Miller Donalyn , Roser Nancy , Smiles Tracy , Sung Yoo Kyung
Published: March 2024

The soul of the Notables is the unique and captivating use of language. This year's 30 award-winning books for children in grades K–8 continue that tradition.
Children’s Literature Reviews Great Books for Sharing and Reading with Children in Grades K–8
Authors: McNair Jonda C. , Bailey Alan R. , Colabucct Lesley , Day Deanna
Published: March 2024

This review column features 14 unthemed children’s books written by authors from diverse racial groups. It also includes books from multiple genres, such as nonfiction, contemporary realistic fiction, alphabet books, graphic novels, etc.