About the Authors

Joan Mitchell’s Recent Publications and Presentations

Milner, J.O., Milner, L.F.M. & Mitchell, J.F. (in press). Bridging English. (5^th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Mitchell, J. (2006). Frequency and depth of moral discussion. In  J.O. Milner & M.K. Graciano (Eds.) The act of teaching English (pp. 13-19). Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Milner, J.O., Martin, K. & Mitchell, J. (2003). Accounting for what counts. The Clearing House, 77(2), 62-66.

Mitchell, J. & Brown, A. (2010, April). The interrelationships of school climate and opportunity to learn: Perspectives from students and teachers. Poster will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.

Mitchell, J. (2010, March). Rethinking revision. Guest lecture for Dr. Karen Spector’s CSE 570 course “Teaching Writing, Grades 6-12,” The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.

Brown, A., Miller, W., Mitchell, J. & Scherff, L. (2009, November). Mentoring ‘pre’ pre-service teachers: Lessons for teacher educators. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Philadelphia, PA.

Mitchell, J. (2009, November). Engaging American dramatists: Eugene O’Neill. Roundtable leader at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Philadelphia, PA.

Mitchell, J. (2002, December). Exploration of the frequency and depth of moral discussion in secondary English classrooms. Poster presentation at the Wake Forest University Graduate Student Research Day, Winston-Salem, NC.

Tina Benson

I am a 5th – 12th grade language arts teacher at Scottsboro Christian Academy.  I also teach high school American and World History classes.  I have been at SCA for 15 years and have taught all grades and most subjects at one time or another.   I hold certifications in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Language Arts, and Administration.  In addition to teaching, I am in charge of curriculum and teacher training and suppervision.  In general I am, as my dad would say, “A jack of all trades but a Master of none”.  Currently I am working on becoming a Master-in Secondary Language Arts Education. 

Karen Spector’s Recent Publications

Spector, K. (in press). Classroom provocateurs and ethical classroom practice. Changing English.

Scherff, L., & Spector, K. (Eds.) (2010). Culturally relevant pedagogy: Clashes and confrontations. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Spector, K. (2010). Reading Romeo and Juliet and talking sex: Critical ideological consciousness as ethical practice. In L. Scherff & K. Spector (Eds.), Culturally relevant pedagogy: Clashes and confrontations. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Scherff, L., & Spector, K. (2010). Introduction. In L. Scherff & K. Spector (Eds.), Culturally relevant pedagogy: Clashes and confrontations. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Scherff, L., & Spector, K. (Eds.) (2010). Culture, relevance, & schooling: Exploring uncommon ground. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Spector, K., & Scherff, L. (2010). Discursive, embodied, and spatial boundaries. In L. Scherff & K. Spector (Eds.), Culture, relevance, & schooling: Exploring uncommon ground. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Spector, K. (2009). Manoeuverings: On either side of the violet tint. J. Van Galen and V. Dempsey (Eds.), Trajectories: The educational and social mobility of educators from the poor and working class. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Spector, K., & Jones, S. (2009). Constructing Anne Frank: Critical literacy in an 8th grade English language arts classroom. In D. Lapp & D. Fisher (Eds.), Essential Readings on Comprehension. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Parks, D., & Spector, K. (2008). Teachers, adolescents, and Holocaust literature. T. Duboys (Ed.), Paths to teaching the Holocaust. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Spector, K. (2007). God on the gallows: Reading the Holocaust through narratives of redemption. Research in the Teaching of English, 42(1), 7-55.

Spector, K., & Jones, S. (2007). Constructing Anne Frank: Critical literacy in an 8th grade English language arts classroom. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 5, 36-48.

Weiman, R., Spector, K., Cobb, R. (2004). Her story must be told: Voices of women in the Holocaust. Hebrew Union College/Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education exhibit featuring narratives and photographs of 15 local Holocaust survivors.

Spector, K. (2003). Social group intersections: Identity and an adolescent boy. American reading forum: Online yearbook, 23.

Spector, K. (2003). Her own music: Virginia Euwer Wolff. Ohio Journal of English Language Arts, 43(2), 78-81.