Welcome to The Dinner Party. This blog is designed to be a giant book club for educators interested in reading and discussing professional books. The need arose because the four of us formed a professional book club, but live miles apart -- even across state lines.
The title comes from Kylene Beers, Robert Probst, and Linda Rief's book Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice. This is the first book (of many, I hope) that we will be discussing. If you wish to join us, order a copy (click here -- you can read chapter one on-line) and then comment-away!
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Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice
"Imagine being invited to a dinner party where you would be able to participate in talk that is excited, passionate, and persuasive about a topic you most enjoy, adolescent literacy. At the conclusion of the party, you leave filled with new ideas that you know in some way will direct what you do next. That's a dinner party you don't want to miss!" (Letter to the contributors of Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice)
Current Book
Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice
The Hosts
Ruth Ayres
Nancy Irwin
Duane Sitkiewicz
June Yazel
Nancy Irwin
Duane Sitkiewicz
June Yazel
About Us
We are four literacy coaches from the Midwest who met through All-Write, a professional development consortium. We wanted to study the topic of adolescent literacy and hence our book club was created. We decided to study a professional book, as well as share our writing with one another. In this way, we can be both authentic readers and writers, as well as experience what our students experience. We look forward to your voice at The Dinner Table.
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