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Researching the Paranormal
Authors: Block Courtney M.
Published: February 2024

The paranormal has long been a hotly contested topic, especially in academia. Most people are entertained by the paranormal or casually read a few books they come across on the topic, perhaps assuming that these topics are nothing more than campfire fodder. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with being entertained by the paranormal, but how many people know that there is a long history of academic, scientific, and credible research into topics such as extrasensory perception, hauntings, poltergeists, cryptozoological sightings, near-death experiences, and more?

In Researching the Paranormal, Courtney M. Block provides an overview of paranormal research and introduces readers to an assortment of resources that seriously examine various paranormal topics. She shows readers how to think critically about paranormal sources and how to apply the components of credibility when conducting their own paranormal investigations. Highlighting the long history of serious, academic inquiry into various paranormal topics, Block provides citations to primary source documents, journal articles, helpful databases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and books. In addition, she provides a historical overview of various paranormal phenomena such as parapsychology, cryptozoology, ufology, divination, ghosts, hauntings, and more.
Copyright Policies and Workflows in Libraries
Authors: Mower Allyson
Published: February 2024

"[T]his volume provides a wealth of information for all librarians dealing with copyright." Library Journal, Starred Review

Copyright situations in libraries can get complicated. How do librarians know how much they can copy? Is everything in libraries fair use? Can librarians let people show movies in the library? Do new services like 3D printing involve copyright? Should librarians always say ‘no’ when patrons want to copy something? Finding the answers can be time-consuming, but with copyright policies and workflows in place, those answers are at the fingertips of librarians. Knowing how to create and implement copyright policies will make it much easier to address the copyright situations that come up in your library. Librarians and those who work in libraries can use this book to get good information and practical advice on both copyright basics and policies. The book is different from other books about copyright in libraries because it focuses on more than the rules of copyright. It goes further by guiding librarians and information professionals on how to incorporate the rules into policies, procedures, and workflows.

With this book, librarians and information professionals will be able to craft a copyright policy that will enable them to answer complicated copyright questions quickly and easily. The book includes sample policies from all types of libraries: academic, public, government, and private. The book covers how to implement a policy and ways to assess its effectiveness. Copyright Policies and Workflows in Libraries will help you understand

Copyright basics and how to get permission

Your library’s context within a legal landscape

The best components of a policy

Practical copyright workflows

How to assess policy effectiveness
Joseph Stalin
Authors: Marples David R. , Hurska Alla
Published: February 2024

The figure of Stalin continues to intrigue, fascinate, and repel historians into the 21st century, while in the Russian Federation, he has returned to the status of a figure to be respected, principally as the leader who led his country through industrialization and militarization, enabling it to defeat Nazi Germany in the Second World War, thereby saving Europe and much of the world from the "brown plague" of Fascism. He presided over some of the most cataclysmic events of the 20th century, of some of which he was the architect: collectivization of agriculture, famine, the Purges, and the Second World War.

Joseph Stalin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works captures his life, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of his life, a dictionary section lists entries on Stalin's associates from the period of the Russian Empire in the late 19th century to the leader's death in 1953, and beyond, highlighting their careers and the main events.
Fear Is Fuel
Authors: Sweeney Patrick
Published: February 2024

Fear, the most powerful force in our life, is the least understood. Every one of us experiences it. Many arrange their lives to avoid it. Yet nearly every one of us needs to find more fear.

Most of us know fear as the unwanted force that drives phobias, anxieties, unhappiness, and inhibits self-actualization. Ironically, fear is the underlying phenomenon that heightens awareness and optimizes physical performance, and can drive ambition, courage, and success. Harnessing fear can heighten emotional intelligence and bring success to every aspect of your life.

Neuroscience and current research on how the brain processes and uses fear have torn the lid off the possibilities of human performance; yet most people are not reaching their complete potential because of a psychological roadblock Sweeney calls the Fear Frontier. Identifying your Fear Frontier and addressing it, Sweeney illustrates in these pages, is the path to success, happiness and fulfillment in almost all aspects of your life. He also provides the most effective steps toward rewiring your mind for a healthier longer life based on courage.

Fear is Fuel is a practical guide that instructs readers on a unique path toward translating fear into optimal living. By facing fears, and challenging new ones, readers can harness the power of unique motivations to achieve more, experience more, and enjoy more. The path to a fulfilling life is not to avoid fear but to recognize it, understand it, harness it, and unleash its power.
Business Basics for Musicians
Authors: Borg Bobby
Published: February 2024

Today, when artists are empowered to take greater control of their careers and earnings, the need for musicians to understand the business of music has never been greater. In a digital age overflowing with confusing and ever-changing information, musicians need trusted business advice from a veteran artist who can break down the basics in language they understand. Written by a professional musician for other musicians, Business Basics for Musicians is the laypersons guide to the music industry.

In this must-have manual, music industry veteran Bobby Borg presents vital info in a conversational tone and an easy-to-scan format regarding five vital areas that musicians need to succeed: Career Execution, Business Relationships, Pro Teams, Deals and Dollars, and Future Predictions. Everything from copyrights to record deals, to managers, to merchandising, to doing it yourself is covered. With pro interviews, anecdotes, and review quizzes, Business Basics for Musicians is the complete handbook from start to success.

Updates for this edition:

Changes in copyright laws

Summary of the Music Modernization Act

Updates on record, merch, publishing, and live performance deals

New trends in sponsorships and partnerships with product brands

New interviews with industry professionals, including managers, producers, and agents

New stories paralleling current events and industry happenings

Updated business resources, industry contacts, and URLs
Digging through History Again
Authors: Freund Richard A.
Published: February 2024

Digging through History Again: New Discoveries from Atlantis to the Holocaust follows archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history—including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, a medieval synagogue in northern Spain and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor and long-neglected sites of the Holocaust. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological site, showing what we can learn about past religious life and religious faith through the artifacts found there, as well as what has given each site such strong "staying power" over time. It also highlights the technological developments in geoscience and archaeology of the last 25 years that allows us to uncover more with less time, expense. and labor while observing the sensitivities associated with Jewish traditions.

Digging Through History Again further explores just how expansive the lost Atlantis Civilization really is, expands upon information known about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the newly discovered caves where more scrolls will be found, and uncovers new excavations of the death camp of Sobibor, the secrets of the Warsaw Ghetto and escapes from Sobibor, Ponar, and, Fort IX that will help set a standard for future archaeology of the Holocaust.

Richard Freund and the research in Digging through History are featured in the National Geographic documentary Atlantis Rising, which premiered on National Geographic in 2017 and a documentary follows Oscar-winning executive producer James Cameron and Emmy-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici as they investigate the myths and realities of Atlantis. The chapter on the “Archaeology of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust” is also a part of the new television documentary “Resistance: They Fought Back” set to air in 2023. Digging through History is the only book that details Freund’s groundbreaking research on Atlantis and on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust that is featured in the films.
Raising LGBTQ Allies
Authors: Tompkins Chris
Published: February 2024

"[A] powerful treatise on creating a more accepting world." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

No matter who we are or where we come from, we all play on the same playground. There are certain collective societal messages we hear growing up that we either consciously or subconsciously believe. As a result, we develop certain belief systems from which we operate our lives.

Raising LGBTQ Allies sheds light on the deeper, multi-faceted layers of homophobia. It opens up a conversation with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child, and shows how heteronormativity can be harmful if not addressed clearly and early. Although not every parent will have an LGBTQ child, their child will jump rope or play tag with a child who is LGBTQ.

By showing readers the importance of having open and authentic conversations with children at a young age, Chris Tompkins walks parents through the many ways they can prevent new generations from adopting homophobic and transphobic beliefs, while helping them explore their own subconscious biases.

Offering specific actions parents, family members, and caregivers can take to help navigate conversations, address heteronormativity, and challenge societal beliefs, Raising LGBTQ Allies serves as a guide to help normalize being LGBTQ from a young age. Creating allies and a world where closets don’t exist happens one child at a time. And it begins with each of us and what we say, as much as what we choose not to say.
Sisyphus No More
Authors: Byrd Roger C. , McCloud Harvey
Published: February 2024

Prisoners released from our bloated American correctional institutions return to a mostly unwelcoming society where they face onerous post-release challenges. No wonder recidivism is near fifty percent, adding tens of billions of dollars annually to the cost of American prisons. Sisyphus No More is a multifaceted argument for increasing prisoner education and training programs to promote the reintegration into society of returning prisoners and increase the likelihood of their securing living-wage jobs. By greatly reducing recidivism, the programs will pay for themselves several times over. Such programs also humanize the treatment of prisoners and help them escape the fate of Sisyphus, the mythological king condemned to a bitterly repetitive fate. The book has two parts. The first provides background on the American prison system and enumerates the tolls incarceration takes on prisoners, their families, and their communities and the costs released prisoners continue to pay that severely hinder their reintegration. In the second part, the authors set forth compelling psychological, sociological, ethical, and financial grounds for increasing education and training to support the reintegration of released prisoners. The final two chapters report on innovative prison education programs and identify steps toward making education and training a priority in our prisons.
The Best Jobs in the Music Industry
Authors: Redman Michael
Published: February 2024

Most people looking at the music industry as a career only think of artist, producer, and engineer, but there are a multitude of other exciting options that offer financial security and keep you close to the music you love. The Best Jobs in the Music Industry is an essential guide for those who want to explore different areas of the industry beyond these obvious routes.

This second edition includes updates and even more exclusive interviews with top professionals, giving a look at how music jobs have changed and the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the industry. Michael Redman takes readers on a tour of different music careers—from performer to label executive to recording engineer and music producer, plus more—and boils down the essentials of each job and what you will need to get your foot in the door including:

job requirements

skill set

potential revenue

longevity

benefits

challenges

Over sixty professionals in the business share their experiences, the good and bad, and how you might take your next steps in your career—including Lee Sklar (session and touring musician), Damon Tedesco (scoring mixer), Adam Parness (executive licensing at Spotify), Mike Ladman (music supervisor at Droga5 advertising), David Newman (composer), Michael Semanick (re-recording mixer), Conrad Pope (orchestrator), Todd Rundgren (music legend), Gary Calamar (music supervisor), Mark Bright (producer), and Steven Vincent (SVP of Music & Soundtracks for the Disney Channel).
Lessons from the Navy
Authors: Brouker Mark
Published: February 2024

Drawing from his experience as an award-winning global leadership speaker, US Navy Captain, Commanding Officer, university professor, and executive coach, Mark Brouker reveals the leadership tactics that have transformed company cultures and generated success—from the boardroom to the battlefield—by focusing on the single pillar of leadership that is most often overlooked: trust.

Through step-by-step guidance, easy-to-use leadership techniques, and the lessons of his military experience, he empowers readers to actively build trust with their subordinates—enabling them to boost morale, enhance productivity, and strive for success. Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is for leaders who want to do better, who want their staff and colleagues to do better, and who want to win the trust and dedication of the people at all levels of their organization. Whether new to the leadership arena or a seasoned leader with years of experience in the arena, whether leading a corporate team, a military team or a sports team, all readers of this work will benefit from the leadership strategies it espouses. Here you will learn how to make these strategies your own..
The Devil in the Gallery
Authors: Charney Noah
Published: February 2024

"It’s an in-depth look at varied time periods and artists, which readers interested in gossip, drama, or art history will enjoy." Library Journal, Starred Review

Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don’t they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin.

But these potentially disastrous “negatives” can and have spurred the world of fine art to new heights. A look at the history of art tells us that rivalries have, in fact, not only benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but have also helped shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack, and therefore drawing the interest of a public who might not be drawn to the objects alone. There would be no Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo had rival Raphael not tricked the pope into assigning him the commission, certain that Michelangelo, who had never before worked with frescoes, would botch the job and become a laughing stock.

Scandal and shock have proven to be powerful weapons when harnessed and wielded willfully and well. That scandal is good for exposure has been so obviously the case that many artists have courted it intentionally, which we will define as shock: intentionally overturning expectations of the majority in a way that traditionalist find dismaying or upsetting, but which a certain minority avant-garde find exciting. From Damien Hirst presenting the public with a shark embalmed in formaldehyde and entombed in a glass case to Marcel Duchamp trying to convince the art community that a urinal is a great sculpture shock has been a key promotional tool.

The Devil in the Gallery is a guided tour of the history of art through it scandals, rivalries, and shocking acts, each of which resulted in a positive step forward for art in general and, in most cases, for the careers of the artists in question. In addition to telling dozens of stories, lavishly illustrated in full color, of such dramatic moments and arguing how they not only affected the history of art but affected it for the better, we will also examine the proactive role of the recipients of these intentionally dramatic actions: The art historians, the critics and even you, the general public.

The Devil likes to lurk in dark corners of the art world, morphing into many forms.

Let us shed light upon him.
Diagnostic Pearls and Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Biopsies of the Pancreas
Authors: Luchini Claudio
Published: February 2024

Context.—

The examination of small pancreatic biopsies is a difficult task for pathologists. This is due to the scant and fragmented material often obtained from diagnostic procedures as well as the significant overlap between different neoplastic and nonneoplastic entities. In the upcoming neoadjuvant era, biopsies could become even more important, representing the only possibility to look at the real histomorphology of tumors before chemotherapy-induced modifications.

Objectives.—

To summarize and discuss the state-of-the-art diagnostic workflow for small pancreatic biopsies, including the most important morphologic and immunohistochemical features and molecular alterations. The main diagnostic pearls and pitfalls of this challenging scenario are also discussed. The most important topics of this review are represented by: (1) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, along with its main differential diagnoses, including autoimmune pancreatitis; (2) solid hypercellular neoplasms, including neuroendocrine neoplasms, acinar cell carcinoma, pancreatoblastoma, and solid pseudopapillary neoplasms; and (3) cystic lesions. Real-world considerations will also be presented and discussed.

Data Sources.—

Sources included a literature review of published studies and the author’s own work.

Conclusions.—

The correct diagnosis of pancreatic lesions is a crucial step in the therapeutic journey of patients. It should be based on robust, standardized, and reliable hallmarks. As presented and discussed here, the integration of morphology with immunohistochemistry, and, in selected cases, with molecular analysis, represents a decisive step in this complex scenario.
Research Analysis of Teaching Methodology Employed in Pakistani Public Sector Schools
Authors: Warsha Kshif  , Imran Ahmed  , Abeer Zainab
Published: February 2024

The paper examines the role of the Grammar Translation Method (GTM) in English classrooms in Pakistani Public Sector Schools, by analyzing the aims and objectives of the English Secondary Stage books 1 and 2, as allocated by the Sindh Textbook Board, and examining whether students can fulfill these aims and reach the language objectives as mentioned in the syllabus. The research study that has been conducted consisted of a sample group comprising of a total of 33 students. Out of these, 15 students belonged to the Matric level (Grade X) while the remaining 18 were from Grade 1X, and they all belonged to a Welfare Organization known as The Justuju School. To measure the students' comprehension skills, they were given a text to read, followed by a set of questions that included both open-ended and multiple-choice questions. In addition to this, two English textbooks were analyzed as part of the study to determine whether the objectives of the curriculum were being successfully fulfilled or not. The study aimed at examining the effectiveness of the curriculum and identifying any areas that require improvement to enhance the students' overall learning experience and comprehension skills.
Readying ELA Teachers for 21st Century Classrooms
Authors: Collopy Trisha
Published: February 2024

Teacher prep programs reflect the challenges of responding to intense pressure for change.
President’s Commentary: Leadership for Advocacy and Transformation
Authors: Short Kathy G.
Published: February 2024

NCTE President Kathy G. Short reflects on the influence of Kent Williamson’s mentorship, and on his legacy to NCTE.
Interview with Cory Doctorow
Authors: Johnson Philip
Published: February 2024

“The best learning happens when it is self-directed and self-initiated,” says Cory Doctorow.
Teachable Moments: Comics, Classroom Reading, and Choice
Authors: Pearce Chris
Published: February 2024

English teacher and comic book artist Chris Pearce created this comic strip on a topic that’s always been important to NCTE members—students’ right to read.
The Learning Journey: A Collaborative Approach to Literacy Instruction
Authors: Fournel Jenna
Published: February 2024

Last fall, NCTE began a journey with 21 schools in five states across the country designed to build their local capacity to support stronger literacy teaching and learning. The first step in every site was a comprehensive needs assessment.
What We Are Learning about How Literacy Assessment Supports Learners
Authors: Yancey Kathleen Blake
Published: February 2024

Sharing Survey Results from NCTE’s Assessment Story Project.
Learning, Literacy & Leadership in Communities of Belonging
Authors: Allen Norman
Published: February 2024

Interviews with Juan C. Guerra and Marcelle Haddix
Teaching the Middle Level: “I have found true happiness”
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: February 2024

Two educators celebrated by NCTE awards talk about the challenges -- and rewards -- of teaching students in the middle.
It’s Important to See Yourself in a Book: An Interview with Matt de la Peña
Authors: Gibbs Adrienne Samuels
Published: February 2024

Author Matt de la Peña is the recipient of NCTE’s 2016 Intellectual Freedom Award! He’ll accept the award at the Saturday Awards Session at the Atlanta Convention.
Falling in Love with Books at the African American Read-In
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: February 2024

Take a look at how schools and communities have celebrated the African American Read-In.
Not Just for Athletes
Authors: Collopy Trisha
Published: February 2024

Using sports-based texts to develop classroom literacies
Q & A with Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty
Authors: Gibbs Adrienne Samuels
Published: February 2024

Learn how this accidental go-to source on grammar got her start!
Wondering What’s Possible When English Teachers Join Forces?
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: February 2024

You might be surprised how much is happening inside NCTE affiliates!
Welcoming Students as Full Vessels
Authors: Collopy Trisha
Published: February 2024

“The big understanding that teachers are developing is that when [English language learners] walk into the classroom, they’re a full vessel. Even if they’re not using English productively,they’re not producing English orally,they are still full of knowledge, they have literacy—they have oral literacy for sure and many have some written literacy.”

—Marsha Riddle Buly, Western Washington University
Building Confianza—Trust—Outside the Classroom
Authors: Collopy Trisha
Published: February 2024

In Steven Alvarez’s new book for NCTE, he captures insights about teaching English language learners that offer a counter to the deficit-model narrative.
Setting the Stage for Learning
Authors: Collopy Trisha
Published: February 2024

Bellingham, two hours north of Seattle, has seen its ELL student population mushroom in recent years. Six years ago, Andrea Quigley spent most of her time working with 50 students at one school. Now she works with students at two schools and trains classroom teachers across the district to work with ELL students.
We Are All ELL Teachers
Authors: Collopy Trisha
Published: February 2024

Elisa Waingort, who currently teaches at an international school in Quito, Ecuador, says coordinating between ELL support and classroom instructor is a challenge.
Are You Maximizing Your Classroom as a Space That Supports Literacy Learners?
Authors: Hunt Hannah , Collins Emily , Smith Andrea
Published: February 2024

Teachers from Chapman Elementary School in the Dublin City School District, Ohio, share how they use their classroom space to support literacy learners. Share your own ideas (and high-quality photos) by sending to chronicle@ncte.org!
Writing Can Transform Humanity
Authors: Gordon Jessica
Published: February 2024

Jessica Gordon reflects on Jonathan Alexander’s keynote from the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Conference on College Composition and Communication
Writing Speaks
Authors: Chadwick Jocelyn A.
Published: February 2024

NCTE President Jocelyn A. Chadwick on Writing’s Importance
The UnEssay: Making Room for Creativity in the Composition Classroom
Authors: Sullivan Patrick
Published: February 2024

There has been a remarkable surge of interest in creativity in a wide variety of disciplines in recent years. Taken in aggregate, this body of work now theorizes creativity as a—foundational aspect of human cognition and intelligence. If we theorize creativity as a highly sophisticated and valuable form of cognition, it must also then be regarded as a necessary—and indispensable part of the curriculum in the writing classroom.
Adventuring into MOOC Writing Assessment: Challenges, Results, and Possibilities
Authors: Comer Denise K. , White Edward M.
Published: February 2024

This article shares our experience designing and deploying writing assessment in English Composition I: Achieving Expertise, the first-ever first-year writing Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). We argue that writing assessment can be effectively adapted to the MOOC environment and that doing so reaffirms the importance of mixed-methods approaches to writing assessment and drives writing assessment toward a more individualized,learner-driven, and learner-autonomous paradigm.
“But a quilt is more”: Recontextualizing the Discourse(s) of the Gee’s Bend Quilts
Authors: Sohan Vanessa Kraemer
Published: February 2024

classroom blogging can be an effective tool through which to apprentice students in appropriate disciplinary thinking and reasoning skills. Inquiry is the basis for disciplinary literacy. Effectively framed blog posts can situate learning tasks from an in
“Know thy work and do it”: The Rhetorical-Pedagogical Work of Employment and Workplace Guides for Adults with “High-Functioning” Autism
Authors: Kopelson Karen
Published: February 2024

This article examines the rhetoric and pedagogies of employment and workplace guidebooks for adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) to demonstrate how the texts reflect and reinvent cultural desires or fantasies about contemporary employees and also work to norm real autistic employees to be closer to a neurotypical ideal. This norming is achieved in large part through the guidebooksâ€™ surprising appropriations of and appeals to rhetorical training.
Translingualism and Close Reading
Authors: Trimbur John
Published: February 2024

This essay traces a branch of translingualism in US college composition to the era of open admissions, when the emergence of basic writing precipitated a new kind of reading on the part of composition teachers and a new understanding of what error or language differences might mean. It locates one of the antecedents of a translingual approach in the close reading derived from literary studies that developed out of the experience of basic writing, from Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations to David Bartholomae’s “The Study of Error” to the present-day work of Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner.
Transfer and Translingualism
Authors: Leonard Rebecca Lorimer , Nowacek Rebecca
Published: February 2024

This essay identifies the definitional confluences between transfer and translingualism and then reflects on the ways that each term might benefit from considering the other’s research questions, theoretical frames, and methodologies. While translingualism challenges assumptions about how to recognize and evaluate transfer, the transfer literature demonstrates the value of fine-grained, long-term, naturalistic studies of writing, a value productively taken up in research on a translingual approach. Ultimately, the essay suggests that both transfer and translingualism might best be understood not as prescribed pedagogies or policies but as terms with explanatory value: small theories that help open up changing practices in our writing lives.
Appraising Translingualism
Authors: Dryer Dylan B.
Published: February 2024

Decades of research on rater training and scoring practices demonstrates that raters' preferences for writing quality are malleable; for instance, it is customary to "calibrate" raters' scoring decisions through documents like scoring protocols and rubrics. This essay argues that while rubrics from contemporary large-scale writing assessments (and the local assessments they inspire) maintain retrograde assumptions about language variation, relatively small adjustments to these rubrics could help raters and candidates establish what Joseph Williams once called "the ordinary kind of contract" that readers and writers routinely observe anywhere outside of testing contexts.
Literate Misfitting: Disability Theory and a Sociomaterial Approach to Literacy
Authors: Miller Elisabeth L.
Published: February 2024

By examining the literate practices of persons with aphasia, or language disability after stroke or other brain injury, this essay develops the concept of literate misfittingâ€”the conflicts readers and writers encounter when their bodies and minds do not fit with the materials and expectations of literacy. I analyze how literate misfitting reveals both how persons with disabilities are often excluded from normative conceptions of literacy and how their experiences adapting and innovating in the face of literate misfits offer vital insights into the social and material aspects of literacy.
Opening the Conversation: Handing Over the Conversation: Our Final Editorial
Authors: Rush Leslie S , Scherff Lisa
Published: February 2024

In this, our final editorial, we reflect back on the goals outlined in our first editorial (October 2010) and what we accomplished in the past five years.Our vision for English Education was â€œto continue the solid reputation for both excellence and collegiality that has been built over the last four decadesâ€ (p. 6). We hope that you, the reader, feel we were successful in meeting this vision.
John Dewey, the Common Core, and the Teaching of English
Authors: White Brian
Published: February 2024

In addition to being one of the authors of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), David Colemanhas become the Standards’ “most visible advocate” (Smith, Appleman, & Wilhelm, 2014, p. 10) and one of their “most prominent and articulate promoters” (Rabinowitz & Bancroft, 2014, p. 4). Ina talk titled “Bringing the Common Core to Life,” delivered to the New York State Department of Education, Coleman (2011) moves beyond promoting the CCSS to explaining and modeling his vision of “what we must do” (p. 16) when teaching complex, informational texts. This article illuminates the regressive nature of Coleman’s pedagogical prescriptions by juxtaposing them with the more progressive approaches to literary education proposed by John Dewey and by referring to research that demonstrates the deleterious effects of the strategies Coleman advocates.
Provocateur Pieces: White Abjections: Language and Feeling in the Urban English Classroom
Authors: Pindyck Maya
Published: February 2024

This provocation explores the abjective e/affects of white ideology manifested as school language in the United States. Through recursive engagement and symbolic play with her memory of watching a student eat toilet paper during a College Essay Writing class, the author challenges the institutional grammars that shape a collective sense of “school.” Through a critical analysis of the shared “public transcript” (Scott, 1990) of many urban schools, the author considers the ways in which students and teachers get summoned into particular social existences in relation to whiteness as the dominant culture of power. She uses both written and visual languages to offer poetryas a site of theory towards reinscribing the relationship between language, feeling, and address in the urban English classroom and inciting new, socially just structures of learning. The author’s sketches of this memory drawn with ink on toilet paper intervene throughout the article, giving her provocation an added dimensionality.
Honoring All Learners: The Case for Embedded Honors in Heterogeneous English Language Arts Classrooms
Authors: Nurenberg David
Published: February 2024

Tracking and other practices of homogeneously grouping students by so-called ability level remain a norm in American classrooms, despite decades of research highlighting how they disserve and even harm student learning. Heterogeneous grouping, by contrast, benefits struggling learners, a conclusion supported by a substantial body of research. Some of that research cautions, however, that these benefits may be perceived as coming at the expense of higher-performing classmates’ learning. This article reviews the literature, contemporary case studies, and the author’s personal experience to argue for, and provide specific models of, a heterogeneous English language arts (ELA) classroom. These models use deliberate practices of differentiated instruction to serve learners at all ability levels, and furthermore do so in a manner that integrates the possibility for students to earn “honors” credit. The article argues that ELA is perhaps the ideal discipline in which to enact such structural shifts, creating heterogeneous classrooms that work to the advantage of all learners.
Provocateur Pieces: Teaching Story
Authors: LeSage Teresa Mae
Published: February 2024

This provocation is a personal essay of creative nonfiction. Playing with form, the piece offers three scenes separated by a series of multiple-choice questions; readers must use this standardized-test format to create meaning and understand the text itself, the nature of today’s high-stakes tests, the story’s characters, and the essence of teaching. While the names of the students and one staff member have been changed to protect their privacy, the events are true to the author’s experience.
Disrupting and Dismantling the Dominant Vision of Youth of Color
Authors: Groenke Susan L. , Haddix Marcelle , Glenn Wendy J. , Kirkland David E. , Price-Dennis Detra , Coleman-King Chonika
Published: February 2024

In this article, ELA and urban teacher educators who have been long-time advocates for and users of young adult literature in their work with beginning English—teachers re-think the cultural constructs of “black and brown” adolescence that undergird the genre and guide their work.
Carpe Librum: Seize the (YA) Book: Will You Go Out with Me? Why First Loves Are Painfully Important to YA Lit
Authors: Hussack Emilee , Schmidt Pauline Skowron
Published: February 2024

This column hopes to serve as a space dedicated to conversation about Young Adult Literature and to celebrate adolescents, their reading, and their experiences—by reviewing the texts that engage them.
Creating Space for Poetry
Authors: Schrauben Julie E.
Published: February 2024

In this article, the author shares how specifically teaching author’s craft can open or allow a space for poetry to emerge from students’ writing.
The Emerging Shape of Voice
Authors: Swain Sherry Seale , Graves Richard L. , Morse David T.
Published: February 2024

This article details research exploring which rhetorical elements are associated with statewide assessment scores and considers the role and occurrence of voice in student writing to inform teaching practice.
A Queer Literacy Framework Promoting (A)Gender and (A)Sexuality Self-Determination and Justice
Authors: Miller Sj
Published: February 2024

While LGBT*IAGCQM students feel safer at school than ever before, the author advocates for a queer literacy framework to facilitate a new reading and legitimacy of (a)gender and (a)sexuality in the self and others.
Soft(a)ware in the English Classroom: Spreadsheets and Sinners: How and Why English Teachers Can Claim Their Rightful Place in STEM Education
Authors: Lynch Tom Liam
Published: February 2024

“Soft(a)ware in the English Classroom” seeks to identify the ways in which our teaching and learning lives are influenced by software.
Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: Assimilation, Acculturation, Education
Authors: Hickey Pamela J.
Published: February 2024

“Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners” discusses critical, transformative, and powerful ways to support students’ acquisition of Standard English.
Partner Learning (Havruta) for Close Reading Comprehension
Authors: Shargel Rebecca , (Barbara) Laster B. P.
Published: February 2024

Havruta (partner learning) is explored as an appropriate pedagogy where pairs closely read texts and discuss them, combining intellectual and interpersonal dimensions.
You Are Not a Deficit: Reading Relationships in an Australian New Arrival Program
Authors: Lamping Sally
Published: February 2024

In this article, the author examines one of Australia’s stand-alone New Arrival Programs (NAPs) and what these programs can teach us about relationships andemergent literacy.
Using Nonfiction to Enhance Our Teaching of Literature
Authors: Fisch Audrey A. , Chenelle Susan
Published: February 2024

The authors used vocabulary activities, photographs, group work, and writing with tenth-grade students to unpack a commission report on violence associated with housing desegregation in 1950s Chicago to deepen students’ engagement with Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
Using Memorials to Build Critical Thinking Skills and Empathy
Authors: Ansbach Jennifer
Published: February 2024

Using memorials and related nonfiction print and nonprint texts, students explore elements involved in creating a memorial and learn to think critically about the relationship between these elements.
Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners: Writing Nonfiction: Academic Language, Authentic Activity, and the Disciplines
Authors: McQuitty Vicki
Published: February 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: Readers of Ones and Zeros: A Case for K–12 Digital Humanities Education
Authors: Lynch Tom Liam
Published: February 2024

“Soft(a)ware in the English Classroom” seeks to identify the ways in which our teaching and learning lives are influenced by software.
Challenging Heteronormativity: Raising LGBTQ Awareness in a High School English Language Arts Classroom
Authors: Burke Brianna R. , Greenfield Kristina
Published: February 2024

This article details a unit designed for a high school English classroom to address social injustice and the silencing of LGBTQ individuals.
Classical Rhetoric in Atticus Finch’s Speeches
Authors: Holland Brooke Richelle
Published: February 2024

By exploring the uses of plain, middle, and grand styles, the author examines how theories of classical rhetoricians can be applied to Atticus Finch’s speeches in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Disabling Assumptions: Read This Young Adult Novel! (It’s You, Society, Who Needs to “Try Harder!”)
Authors: Dunn Patricia A.
Published: February 2024

This column explores how paying attention to disability “both to the rich contributions made by people with disabilities and to the sometimes negative attitudes in society that can interfere with those contributions” can foster classroom interactions that are more democratic, more inclusive, and more equitable.
Carpe Librum: Seize the (YA) Book
Authors: Schmidt Pauline Skowron , Corbett Ashley
Published: February 2024

This column serves as a space dedicated to conversation about Young Adult Literature and to celebrate adolescents, their reading, and their experiences by reviewing the texts that engage them.
A Thousand Writers: Voices of the NWP: Wrestling with the Cat Lady: Teaching Writing in an Era of Standardization
Authors: Early Jessica Singer , Saidy Christina , Parker Tricia
Published: February 2024

This column seeks to explore the experiences of National Writing Project teachers as writers, teachers of writing, and educational leaders.
Radical Hope in English Education: Hewing Open Doors in Stone
Authors: LeSage Teresa , Schindler Emily
Published: February 2024

In this piece, a practicing teacher discusses an institutional and collegial experience as she attempts to implement an innovative, research-based curricular model for literacy education.
Dialogism in Teacher Professional Development: Talking Our Way to Open-Door Teaching
Authors: Wells Melissa Summer , Mitchell Dawn Johnson
Published: February 2024

Two district literacy leaders share their experience designing a dialogic model ofprofessional development for literacy teachers that advocates for open-door teaching.
Respectfully Rethinking Resistance
Authors: Macaluso Michael , Russo Anne
Published: February 2024

This article respectfully challenges the metaphor of “open doors as resistance” by reconceptualizing power in the English classroom.
Huck and Kim: Would Teachers Feel the Same if the Language Were Misogynist?
Authors: Smagorinsky Peter
Published: February 2024

The author reviews controversies surrounding the teaching of Huck Finn in the context of racial turmoil in the United States, then presents a revised text that substitutes a misogynist term, c***, for n*****, and makes the character Jim a female, Kim, asking readers to consider the need for empathy in reading.
The Practical Student-Led Classroom: A Conversation with Paul Solarz
Authors: Abrams Oona
Published: February 2024

Paul Solarz’s insistence on student leadership in his fifth grade classroom makes a powerful case for both the necessity of voice and a careful consideration of the choices teachers offer their students.
Authentic Assessment as a Vehicle for Social Change
Authors: Rome Alana
Published: February 2024

The author outlines an initiative for authentic assignments with her high school class. She discusses flipping writing instruction and framing students’ work in real-world contexts, culminating in feedback from a government official.
Learning to Lead Instructional Shifts in ELA
Authors: Fenton Benjamin
Published: February 2024

This article describes the experience of a teacher-leader at a New York City high school who successfully coached a team of ninth-grade English teachers to improve students’ reading and writing achievement over the course of one year.
Implementing ePorfolios in English Education: Delights, Dilemmas, and Recommendations
Authors: Sams Brandon , Warner Latasha B.
Published: February 2024

This article presents delights and dilemmas we experienced during the implementation of ePortfolio in our English education program. Also, we provide recommendations to others who may wish to implement ePortfolio in their English education programs.
Promoting Social Justice through School and Community Research
Authors: Iannuzzi George , Flynn Jill Ewing , Zuccarello Veronica
Published: February 2024

In this article, the authors illustrate how researching a school community can help novice teachers, and in turn their future students, question dominant narratives about people and places and foster social justice. The projects discussed here were inspired by discussions in their culminating undergraduate methods class to have their students create digital projects centered on issues important to their communities. This article will be helpful to English teachers, English teacher leaders, and English teacher educators who want to explore the integration of socially relevant, critical research topics in order to foster social justice.
Connecting with Readers on Twitter: Chatting with Members of the #Read4Fun Community
Authors: Abrams Oona
Published: February 2024

Lena Marie Rockwood, Susie Highley, Connie Rockow, and Stacey Lindes talk with ELQ editor Oona Abrams about creating a digital reading community.
Professional Learning on a Shoestring: Advice and Reflections from Connected Educators and Authors
Authors: Abrams Oona
Published: February 2024

ELQ editor Oona Abrams offers a short list of ways to grab professional development without breaking the budget (yours OR your district’s).
Alohomora: Unlocking the Magic of Collaboration
Authors: Nelson Sara , Rastogi Tanvi , Heid Jerri
Published: February 2024

This article details an innovative collaboration between community librarians and literacy educators from a local university and the many benefits that arise from collaborations that draw upon the strengths of each group to advance community literacy. The highlighted collaborations include two projects: Battle of the Books and Harry Potter Battle of the Books. Each collaborative event offered numerous benefits to the library, university and the communities that they serve, including 1) creating a culture of readers, 2) supporting a sense of community, 3) promoting life skills, and 4) introducing diverse literature.
Children’s Literature Reviews: The 2014 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Authors: Bandré Patricia E. , Clark Shanetia P. , Draper Christine , Koblitz Dick , Schroeder Jean , Ward Barbara
Published: February 2024

In this column, committee members present the 2014 Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts. Committee members carefully evaluate each book based on the following criteria. Each title must: (1) deal explicitly with language, such as play on words, word origins, or the history of language; (2) demonstrate uniqueness in the use of language or style; and (3) invite child response or participation.
Becoming the Story in the Joyful World of “Jack and the Beanstalk” [FREE ACCESS]
Authors: Whitmore Kathryn F.
Published: February 2024

This article looks into the world of pretend to understand how the invitation to move, to take risks, and to become the story of Jack and the Beanstalk afforded three- to five-year-old children a means to be more than their usual selves. It describes a ten-week process drama residency studied in two preschool settings: first in three classrooms in a rural Head Start school and one year later in two classrooms in an urban Reggio-inspired child development center. The focus is on the compelling effect of engaging preschoolers’ bodies in movement and pretend, particularly for three children who presented what the author chooses to call “special circumstances” and whose experiences illustrate how embodied learning occurred so prominently in the Jack and the Beanstalk residency.
This children's literature column features reviews of recently published titles about a range of topics including a mouse who solves mysteries, extreme weather, tiny creatures, the experiences of contemporary Native Americans, and the ocean. It also includes a wide variety of genres and subgenres.
Authors: McNair Jonda C. , Day Deanna , Möller Karla J. , Zapata Angie
Published: February 2024

This children's literature column features reviews of recently published titles about a range of topics including a mouse who solves mysteries, extreme weather, tiny creatures, the experiences of contemporary Native Americans, and the ocean. It also includes a wide variety of genres and subgenres.