2006 Outstanding ELA Educator Award Winner

Shelley Harwayne is the twelfth recipient of the NCTE Outstanding Educator in the English Language Arts Award. 

The Outstanding ELA Award recognizes a distinguished national or international educator who has made major contributions to the field of language arts in elementary education. The Elementary Section Steering Committee celebrated Shelley's contributions to the English language arts at the Elementary Section Get-Together during the NCTE Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

Shelley has been affiliated with the New York City public schools for more than thirty years. She was a founding principal of the Manhattan New School, codirector of the Teachers College Writing Project, and superintendent of District #2. 

Her involvement with NCTE spans many years through various committees and conferences including the 2002-03 Elementary Nominating Committee, 2000-03 Commission on Composition, 1989-90 NCTE Nominating Committee, 2002 WLU Conference in Bethesda, Maryland featured keynote address with Jame Loewen and Monty Neil. 

Read "Interview with . . . Shelley Harwayne" by Peggy Albers and Allen Koshewa which appeared in Talking Points, April/May, 2003.  (PDF) 

Also read about Shelley in "Profiles and Perspectives" by Joanne Hindley which appeared in Language Arts, November, 2006.  (PDF) 

Books:

Novel Perspectives: Writing Minilessons Inspired by the Children in Adult Fiction, Heinemann, 2005. 

Learning to Confer, Heinemann, 2004.

Messages to Ground Zero: Children Respond to September 11, 2001, New York City Board of Education, Heinemann, 2002.

Writing Through Childhood: Rethinking Process and Product, Heinemann, 2001.

Lifetime Guarantees: Toward Ambitious Literacy Teaching, Heinemann, 2000.

Going Public: Priorities & Practice at the Manhattan New School, Heinemann, 1999.

Jewels: Children's Play Rhymes, illustrated by Teresa Farr, Mondo Publishing, 1995.

Lasting Impressions: Weaving Literature into the Writing Workshop, Heinemann, 1992.

Living Between the Lines, Heinemann, 1990.

The Writing Workshop: A World of Difference, Heinemann, 1987.

Journal Articles:

"Messages to Ground Zero: Children Respond to September 11, 2001," Shelley Harwayne and the children of New York City,  Language Arts, Volume 80, Number 1, September 2002.

 Valuing Voice/"Tribute to Teaching" (poem), Voices from the Middle, Volume 3, Number 4, November 1996.