Teachers & Writers Collaborative

The Circuit Writer: Writing with Schools and Communities is Margot Fortunato Galt’s compelling account of her 3 decades as a visiting writer in the Upper Midwest, teaching such diverse populations as Somali and Hmong refugees, Dakota Indians, Hispanic and Spanish Immersion students, and the Nordic children of Minnesota farmers. As she evokes the great tradition of pioneering educators, she also grapples with the enduring tensions between encouraging assimilation and fluency and respecting native traditions and wisdom. Each chapter focuses on particular cases from Galt’s teaching, and highlights writing exercises and the teachers and students who transformed real-life escapes and escapades into literary art.

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The seventy-two informal essays in Educating the Imagination were selected from the very best articles in Teachers & Writers magazine. Fifty-five creative writers present a multitude of ideas and techniques for writing in the classroom: poetry, fiction, writing across cultures, bookmaking, creative reading, the history of punctuation, and that great, alluring mystery known as the imagination.

In this delightful classic, translated into English for the first time, the Italian writer Gianni Rodari fuses together fairy tales, folk tales, cognitive development, and compassionate education to create a series of wonderful techniques for creating stories. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of America’s foremost experts on children’s literature, The Grammar of Fantasy “delves deep into the mysterious heart of the creative process.”—Kliatt
“This ‘grammar’ of creativity…should be placed next to the dictionary and the thesaurus.”—M_arvels & Tales_

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The Nearness of You is a guide to adapting the Internet to the writing classroom. Twenty-four educators discuss dynamic and inventive applications of interactive technologies and online publishing. The guide features a superb list of online resources.
“The practical advice [herein] will weather time and changing technology.”—International Society for Technology in Education

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Before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded his own school on his estate at Yasnaya Polyana. Brimming with progressive and sometimes radical ideas on schooling, Tolstoy undertook to teach the peasant children many subjects—including imaginative writing—and published a number of essays about what he learned. This is a book for anyone who cares about education, children, the imagination, and Tolstoy.
“Teachers of writing at all levels will enjoy this reading experience and all teachers should be renewed by the message.”—Language, Literacy, and Literature

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Patsy Cooper offers preschool teachers, kindergarten teachers, daycare workers, and parents a wonderful and natural way to help young children begin to read and write: placing stories at the very core of the early childhood curriculum. The book includes an in-depth discussion of the crucial pedagogical and developmental roles that stories can play in early childhood, as well as a practical guide to having children tell their own stories and perform them with their classmates. Cooper discusses the uses and misuses of Whole Language, Invented Spelling, and the Writing Process. “Will inspire as well as inform.”—Dimensions of Early Childhood.

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