2000 Edwin A. Hoey Award Winner
Linda Rief is the third recipient of the NCTE Edwin A. Hoey Award for Outstanding Educator in the English Language Arts.
 The Edwin A. Hoey Award, cosponsored by the Weekly Reader Corporation, recognizes exceptional English language arts teachers for grades 5-8 who have demonstrated excellence in teaching English language arts and inspired a spirit of inquiry and a love of learning in their students.The award was presented at the second annual Middle Level Luncheon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the NCTE Annual Convention on Friday, November 17, 2000.
Linda Rief has taught 7th and 8th grade language arts at Oyster River Middle School in Durham, New Hampshire for the past 17 years. She is "an extraordinary teacher who knows the value of connecting with her students-both for their sakes and for her own," says one of her colleagues.
She is the former coeditor of Voices from the Middle and a finalist for the New Hampshire Teacher of the Year 2000. She also won the NCTE Richard W. Halle Outstanding Middle Level Educator Award in 1999, and was an alternate for the 1989 U.S. Department of Education Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program-New Hampshire, as well as a Teacher Fellow in Writing, Summer 1988, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC.
See the article about Linda Rief by Bill Mollineaux which appeared in Voices from the Middle, Volume 8, Number 2 in December, 2000.  (PDF)
Some of Linda's publications include:
"The Power of Reading: Practices That Work." Voices from the Middle, Vol. 8 No. 2, December 2000. NCTE.
"Linking Art and Literature." Instructor, September 1999, pp. 18-22. Scholastic.
"Flowers on the Wall: Human Rights, One Story at a Time." Voices from the Middle, Vol. 6 No. 4, May 1999. NCTE.
Vision and Voice: Extending the Literacy Spectrum. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 1999. (Book & CD)
"Sarah: Speaking for Herself." Voices from the Middle, November 1996, Vol. 3 No. 4. NCTE.
"First Annual Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts: Donald H. Graves." Voices from the Middle, April 1996, Vol. 3 No. 2. NCTE.
"Staying Off-Balance and Alive: Learning from my Students." All That Matters: What Is It We Value in School and Beyond? Eds. Rief and Barbieri. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 1995.
Seeking Diversity: Language Arts with Adolescents. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 1992.
Related Information:
Edwin A. Hoey Award Overview
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