Previous James N. Britton Award Winners

2007  Maja Wilson--Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment

2006  Richard E. Miller--Writing at the End of the World
         Alfred Tatum--Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the
         Achievement Gap

2005   Vivian Vasquez--Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children

2004   Bob Fecho--"Is This English?": Race, Language, and Culture in the
          Classroom

2003   no award given

2002   John Gaughan--Reinventing English: Teaching in the Contact Zone
          Peter Elbow--Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of 
          Writing and Teaching Writing

2001   Carol Pope--"Reflection and Refraction: A Reflexive Look at an Evolving 
          Model for Methods Instruction," English Education,  Apr 1999

2000   Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy--John Dewey and the 
          Challenge of Classroom Practice, 1998

          Stephen Wolk--A Democratic Classroom, 1998

1999   Curt Dudley-Marling--Living with Uncertainty: The Messy Reality of
          Classroom Practice, 1997

1998   Fran Claggett--A Measure of Success: From Assignment to Assessment
          English Language Arts. 1996

1997   Maureen Barbieri--Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls,
          1995

1996   Jane Isenberg--Going by the Book: The Role of Popular Classroom
          Chronicles in the Professional Development of Teachers, 1994

          Robert Tremmel--"Zen and the Art of Reflective Practice in Teacher
          Education," Harvard Educational Review, Winter 1993

1995   Patricia Lambert Stock--"The Function of Anecdote in Teacher
          Research," English Education, Oct 1993

1994    Janice Neuleib--"The Friendly Stranger: Twenty-five Years as "Other","
          College Composition and Communication, May 1992

          Susan Church--Rethinking Whole Language: The Politics of Educational
          Change

1993   Lucille Parkinson McCarthy and Stephen M. Fishman--"Boundary
          Conversations: Conflicting Ways of Knowing in Philosophy and
          Interdisciplinary Research," Research in the Teaching of English, Dec 1991

1992   Cathy Ann Fleischer--"Reforming Student Literacy: Informing Teacher
          Research"

          Janet L. Miller with collaborating teacher researchers Georgette
          Neville Vosseler, Esther Ranells, Mary Lee Martens, Gerry Seifert,
          and Elizabeth Bauer--Creating Spaces and Finding Voices: Teachers
          Collaborating for Empowerment, 1990

1991   Cynthia Ann Bowman--"Effects of Learning Logs on High School
          Literature Achievement," thesis
         
          Lorraine Cockle--"When is Art? Art Language and the Spectator Role,"
          Teacher as Researcher

          Special Citation to the Kentucky English Bulletin for its Fall
          1989 issue (vol 39, no 1) "Teacher- Researchers"

1990   Anne Martin--"Screening, Early Intervention and Remediation: Obscuring
          Children's Potential," Harvard Educational Review, 58(4), Nov 1988

          Vivian Gussin Paley--Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at
          Four, 1988

          R. Ardyth Sadownik--"Contructs and Intention in Response," In Teacher
          as Researcher, edited by  Merron Chorney, 1988