Filled with rich portraits of in-class writing interactions and challenges, this book highlights various themes that help teachers become better observers and more responsive to the complexity of writing in children’s lives.

This book is a must for early childhood educators, reading and language arts specialists, and scholars/researchers in the field of literacy.

This book reports on conversations in which elementary schoolteachers--who have taught in urban settings for an average of 20 years each--reflect on their professional work.

Introduction by Bobbie Kabuto. Contains reprint of NCTE concept paper series, concept paper no. 9.

Denny Taylor, Anne Haas Dyson, Catherine Compton-Lilly and Bobbie Kabuto are among them. Their studies require social justice and inclusive participation in human societies be moved to the center of the education of all children.

These are essays, to quote George Lakoff, which frame American values accurately and systemically day after day, telling truths by American majority moral values.