Last Names N-S

BRUCE NOVAK

Co-author: Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change

• Tapping into deepest calling of English teachers
• Tapping into the deep psychology of literary reading
• Re-seeing English as Personal Studies

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BRUCE M. PENNIMAN 
Author, Building the English Classroom: Foundations, Support, Success

• Organizing the English classroom
• Writing instruction and assessment
• Developing multicultural literature curricula
• Teaching English in untracked classes

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TONYA B. PERRY
Rainbow Strand
University of Alabama at Birmingham

• Common Core State Standards
• Writing
• Teaching urban students

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• ELA Teachers as Leaders
• Integrating digital video in ELA instruction
• Power of Young Adult Literature in curriculum

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SHARON ROTH
Division Director, Professional Development
NCTE Headquarters, Urbana, Illinois

• Making the most of professional development resources from NCTE
• ReadWriteThink

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Author, Catching Tigers In Red Weather: Imaginative Writing and Student Choice in High School
Hillsboro, New Jersey

• Poetry: reading, writing, speaking
• Imaginative writing and student choice-their roles in meeting and going beyond core standards
• Writing assessment: the students' role

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JENNIFER Y. SANDERS (not pictured)
Author, Literacies, the Arts, and Multimodality
Oklahoma State University

• Nonfiction literacy
• Writing workshop/Writing instruction in elementary education
• Multicultural children literature
• Poetry writing

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• Young Adult Literature
• Researching and Writing with students and Teachers
• English teacher preparation, induction, and mentoring

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JOHN SCHILB
Editor, College English
Indiana University, Bloomington

• Composition theory, rhetorical theory, literary theory, and their possible connections
• General trends in English studies
• Witing for scholarly publication

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YVONNE SIU-RUNYAN
Professor Emerita
University of Northern Colorago

• Meaningful in-service teacher education programs
• Connecting writing and reading instruction accross curricular areas
• Teacher as researcher
• Critical literacies
• Meaningful assessment

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SCOTT SULLIVAN (not pictured)

Editor, Creating Media-Rich Classrooms: New Approaches for Middle and Secondary Teachers
National Louis University, Highland Park, Illinois

• Media literacy and lesson planning
• Interdisciplinary units and media literacy