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School Talk
School Talk is pleased to honor NCTE’s 2006 Outstanding Educator, Shelley Harwayne, the founding principal of the Manhattan New School. In this issue, Shelley and other educators from the school share the power of teaching that builds, not from scripts and mandates, but from knowledge of children and of literacy learning. The authors of the other pieces are JoAnne Searle, Doreen Esposito, Paula Rogovin, and Caroline Gaynor.

School Talk, Volume 13, Number 4, July 2008
Rudine Sims Bishop, the NCTE Elementary Section Outstanding Educator for 2007, leads off this issue with a powerful piece focused on the reasons for using multicultural texts in education, as well as the history and the challenges of doing so.

School Talk April 2008
In this issue of School Talk, Karen Smith, Sarah Diaz, and Silvia Edgerton bring the ideas of purposefulness and intertextuality together in an approach that expands our thinking about students’ meaning-making processes as they engage in “grand conversations” across a set of related texts. Smith provides some background information, and Diaz and Edgerton show us how such an approach works in their classrooms.

Issue theme: Creating Readers: Talking about Books in Multilingual Classrooms
This issue of School Talk takes a look at literature discussion that invites the voices and experiences of all readers, in particularthose who speak (and perhaps read) languages other than English. In all of these classrooms, the presence of literature supports and inspires learning (and teaching), no matter the age or home language of the learner.

Literary Partnerships: Collaborating with Literature to Create Readers
School Talk, Vol. 13, No. 1, October 2007. This issue focuses on viewing reading as an active, creative process that demands something worth reading in order to sustain and satisfy readers of all ages. As Nancy J. Johnson says in the lead article, “real reading demands participation.” Marianne K. Richardson discusses read-alouds; Megan Sloan encourages readers through choice reading; and Kate Norem shares suggestions for getting students to respond to reading.

Communities of Practice: The Role of Classroom Communities in Shaping Identities
School Talk, Volume 12, Number 3, April 2007. The April issue of School Talk looks at the role of classroom communities in shaping students’ identities.

Broadening Visions of What Counts: Honoring Home and Community Literacies
School Talk, Volume 11, Number 4, July 2006. This issue of School Talk explores the strategies used by the other teachers in our students’ lives, those who don’t operate within a classroom setting.

Communities of Practice: Learning as Participation
School Talk, Volume 12, Number 1, October 2006. The October issue looks at communities of practice, those places where we develop our competencies by interacting with other people.

Communities of Practice: Sites for Professional Growth and Change
School Talk, Volume 12, Number 2, January 2007. This issue of School Talk focuses on how teachers can facilitate their own and others’ professional transformations by constructing and participating in communities of practice. Four early-career educators share stories that demonstrate their commitment to teaching as intellectual work and the value that they derive from working with colleagues.

The Challenge of Many Languages in Our Classrooms
School Talk, Volume 9, Number 4, July 2004. Although there are no easy answers for dealing with the challenge of providing effective literacy instruction to students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, the work of Luis Moll (1988) has provided teachers with some guidelines. Moll recognizes the importance of presenting second language learners with many opportunities to engage in reading and writing in meaningful contexts.

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