Writing Can Change Everything invites all of us to consider how the
principles outlined in NCTE's Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of
Writing position statement weave throughout the best practices on
display as students write through creative self-expression, narrative,
inquiry, and project-based learning.
Identifying writing as central to what makes us human, editor and
teacher educator Shelbie Witte has gathered a diverse group of middle
school teacher-writers who open the doors of their classrooms to share
their approaches to mentoring, modeling, and facilitating middle level
writers as they explore their places within our world.
Early adolescents might be physically and emotionally in flux, but they
are also multidimensional, multitalented creatures of curiosity, always
pushing the boundaries of discovery and possibility. The seven educators
whose classrooms are showcased in this book know that being a writer is
being part of the world, and they lead their students toward the
understanding that writing makes a difference, both in their own lives
and in the broader world.
About Principles in Practice
Books in the Principles in Practice imprint offer teachers concrete
illustrations of effective classroom practices based in NCTE research
briefs and policy statements.
Each book discusses the research on a specific topic, links the research
to an NCTE brief or policy statement, and then demonstrates how those
principles come alive in practice: by showcasing actual classroom
practices that demonstrate the policies in action; by talking about
research in practical, teacher-friendly language; and by offering
teachers possibilities for rethinking their own practices in light of
the ideas presented in the books.
