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Joan F. Kaywell is Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida where she has won several teaching awards.  She is passionate about assisting preservice and practicing teachers in discovering ways to improve literacy.  She donates her time extensively to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and its Florida affiliate (FCTE):  She is Past President of NCTE’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and is currently serving as its Membership Secretary; she is a Past-President of FCTE twice and is still on its Board of Directors.  Dr. Kaywell is published in several journals; regularly reviews young adult novels for The ALAN Review, The Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, and Signal; and has edited two series of textbooks:  Five volumes of Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics  (1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2010); six volumes of Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with [Various] Issues (Family 1999, Societal 1999, Identity 1999, Health 2000, End-of-Life 2000, Abuse 2004; and has written one: Adolescents At Risk:  A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals (1993).  Her first trade book Dear Author: Letters of Hope (Philomel, 2007) is intended to get students to choose reading as a healthy escape from their life’s negative circumstances.  Kaywell fervently believes that teachers and authors are often the unsung heroes of children on the brink of self-destruction.  By offering books to children to help them momentarily escape the pain of growing up, teachers offer teenagers a constructive way to survive the crisis, find hope, and know that they are not alone.

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2009 English Leadership Quarterly Best Article

Winner: Crystal K. Whitlow, University of Tennessee-Martin, Ninety Minutes of Inclusion: 10 Essentials Elements Observed  April 2008

Crystal K. Whitlow is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Tennessee at Martin. She earned her doctorate in Special Education at the University of Memphis, her Master's degree in Early Childhood Special Education at Northern Arizona University, and her undergraduate degree in Emotionally Impaired Education at Eastern Michigan University.  She has fifteen years experience in the P-12 classroom including regular education K-2, and special education K-12.  She has five grown children and five grandchildren.

Honorable Mention: Noah Borrero, University of San Francisco, What Students See, Hear, and Do: Language as an Asset at the Bay School February 2008

Noah Borrero is Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco (USF). He started a new program in Urban Education and Social Justice at USF where he teaches courses in bilingual education and teaching for diversity and social justice. His research interests focus on urban education, acculturation, and adolescent development. He earned his Ph.D from Stanford University in Child and Adolescent development in 2006. Noah taught middle and high school English in the San Francisco Bay Area and developed a “young interpreters” program where bilingual youth served as interpreters and translators for their school and community.

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