Selected Additional Publications

Books

• Retracing the Journey:  Teaching and Learning in an American High School, New York, NY:  Teachers College Press, 2007.
• Making the Journey:  Being and Becoming a Teacher of  English Language Arts, Second edition, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000.
• Making the Journey: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. 

Chapters

• "Who is the Good Teacher?" in Adolescent Literacy:  Turning Promise into Practice, edited by Kylene Beers, Robert Probst, and Linda Rief.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007.
• "Natural, Necessary, and Workable:  The Connection of Young Adult Novels to the Classics." Reading Their World:  The Young Adult Novel in the Classroom, Second edition, Virginia Monseau and Gary Salvner. Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook Publishers. 2000, 15-30.
• "Young and Black in America:  Native Son, A Lesson Before Dying, and the Realities of Race."  Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Volume 4, Joan F. Kaywell.  Norwood, MA:  Christopher-Gordon Publishers. 2000, 81-89.
• "Arthur Miller." Writers For Young Adults, Supplement I. Ted Hipple.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 2000, 185-195.
• "The Guy Who Wrote This Poem Seems to Have the Same Feelings as You Have: Reader-Response Methodology." Reader Response in Secondary and College Classrooms, Nicholas J. Karolides, editor.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum.  2000, 47-60. (First published as Reader Response in the Classroom, New York:  Longman,  1992, 33-44.)
• "Language Arts," ASCD Curriculum Handbook: A Resource for Curriculum Administrators,  Alexandria, VA: ASCD. 1998, 1-138. 
• "William Shakespeare," Writers For Young Adults, Volume 3, Ted Hipple.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1997, 155-172.
• "Race, Racism, and Racial Harmony: Using Classic and Young Adult Literature to Teach Othello, the Moor of Venice," Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Volume 3, Joan F. Kaywell.  Norwood, MA:  Christopher Gordon Publishers. 1997, 93-104.

Journal Articles/Refereed Papers

• "The Challenges of Writing on Demand,” Virginia English Bulletin, Spring 2005.
• “Rosenblatt the Radical,” Voices from the Middle, March 2005.
• “What Matters about Literacy Now?,”  Voices from the Middle, Vol. 10, No. 3, March 2003, 46-47.
• “Knowing How to Teach,” Inland, Vol. 25, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2002, 28. 
• “Making the Journey: My Journey,” Virginia English Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 1, Spring 2002, 4-7.
• "Cross Conversations:  Electives Revisited: An Idea Too Good to Die?,"  English Journal, Vol. 89, No. 6, July 2000, 24-25.

• “It’s Never Too Late:  Reading Skills for Teenagers,” Re-printed May 11, 2004 in NCTE INBOX (Weekly Electronic Newsletter).
• “It Takes All Kinds of Heroes,”  “It’s Never Too Late:  Reading Skills for Teenagers,” “Learning vs. Learning to Take the Test,” “The Perils of Prompts,” “Knowing How to Teach,” “The Crayola Curriculum:  Shocking Secrets Revealed,” Printed February-October 2002 in NCTE INBOX (Weekly Electronic Newsletter).
•  “Foreword,” Winning Ways of Coaching Writing:  A Practical Guide for Teaching Writing Grades 6-12, Mary L. Warner, ed., Boston:  Allyn and Bacon, 2001, xvii-xviii.