"With wide readership, this book could change the education of a nation, let alone the lives of the children who attend MNS." -Mem Fox, Author of Radical Reflections and Possum Magic 
 "I've visited this unique school six times....At last the book is here and is must reading for every administrator, teacher, parent, and all who care about public education." -Donald H. Graves, Author of A Fresh Look at Writing 
 "Shelley is the most gifted educator I know....She and her colleagues transformed the institution of public school into a schoolhouse and created a culture of trust, respect, character, rigor, common vision, and love....As I read I took notes nonstop about things I want to do, try, and get tomorrow." -Nancie Atwell, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Author of In the Middle 
 "This is not a book about ideas alone, but about all the nitty-gritty details....It's irresistible....I just wish I had put all Shelley's ideas into practice yesterday. Thank you, thank you, Shelley." -Deborah Meier, Principal, Mission Hill School, Author of The Power of Their Ideas
"[Shelley] celebrates the possibilities for living and loving life in a public school." -Regie Routman, Teacher and writer, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Author of Conversations
"Read it and discover what deeply intelligent, rigorous education can be, should be, and must be for all children." -Anthony Alvarado, Chancellor of Instruction, San Diego City Schools
"Going Public is the most important book on education and schooling that I've read in quite a while...It can inspire all teachers and should be required reading for all principals and superintendents." -David B. Sherman, Vice-President, United Federation of Teachers
How do you create a public school, for a diverse population of children, that is rigorous, nurturing, joyfully literate, and successful by many standards? At the Manhattan New School, Shelley Harwayne has accomplished all this and more. In Going Public, she reveals what happens when she, a literacy expert, accepted the role of principal at a New York City public school and attempted to live up to the words, "Practice what you preach."
Brimming with practical advice, each chapter clearly identifies top priorities of the Manhattan New School community, as well as those practices that have enabled staff and family members to turn their dreams into a reality. You'll learn more about schoolhouse basics such as creating a nurturing social tone, selecting new teachers, developing curriculum, creating assessment tools, meeting standards, and providing worthwhile professional development. You'll also discover helpful advice on some surprising topics: creating bulletin boards that teach, learning students' names, keeping up with housekeeping, and inventing new ways to reach out to parents.
Going Public is a resource that you'll refer to again and again. "Reader's Guides" highlight the priorities and practices contained in every chapter. There are also bulleted lists of important ideas and suggestions, actual letters on a wide range of topics, and illustrative student work. The appendix alone contains dozens of useful and easily reproduced artifacts, including staff meeting conversation starters, interview questions for prospective teachers, and bibliographies of books for children and adults.
Teachers, administrators, parents, and staff developers will find Going Public an invaluable guide to creating a school committed to the very best public education has to offer.

Going Public: Priorities & Practice at the Manhattan New School

Education & Teaching

Harwayne, Shelley

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

Recommended by the Ontario Ministry of Education Grades K-5 Imagine a school where students don’t just learn to read and write—they choose to read and write, and do it with enthusiasm. Performing with distinction on standardized literacy tests, they are participants in a learning community characterized by academic rigor, a supportive social tone, stunning classrooms, and exemplary teaching. This is the kind of learning environment Shelley Harwayne has helped to establish at the Manhattan New School. Now, in a lucid and engaging new book, she takes us behind the scenes to explore the teaching techniques that have resulted in such dazzling success. Readers will discover how to provide students with real-world reasons to write and engage them in effective writing workshops. There are also suggestions on how the entire school culture can support the teaching of poetry and nonfiction. Readers will learn about the importance of having non-negotiables in the teaching of reading, designing beautiful literacy settings, and providing safety nets for struggling students. A natural companion to Going Public, this book can also serve as a conversation starter at faculty meetings as it is studded with staff development ideas and reproducible materials. Above all, the literacy message in this book will comfort those who have grown anxious about the literacy work they do. Shelley’s tone, ideas, and sense of humor will offer information, inspiration, and peace of mind to educators new to the field as well as experienced professionals who are weary when they read yet another negative story about the teaching of literacy in our country.

Lifetime Guarantees : Toward Ambitious Literacy Teaching

Recommended by the Ontario Ministry Of Education Grades K-5 Shelley Harwayne has been rethinking the teaching of writing ever since she opened the Manhattan New School ten years ago. There, as principal, she had the unique opportunity to follow her students' growth as writers from the very first day they entered kindergarten through graduation six years later. Now, as superintendent of her New York City school district, Shelley continues to take a hard look at the teaching of writing across schools and throughout the grades, questioning what has become traditional practice. In Writing Through Childhood, Shelley dares us to rethink our beliefs about how we design writing workshops, use writer's notebooks, choose appropriate genres, teach spelling, help students connect their reading to their writing, and even edit and publish students' writing. Filled with stories and work samples of real children in a diverse urban setting, the book will inspire rich conversations in which educators ask essential questions about their own practice, including: <ul>
<li>Does my writing workshop support the notion that writing during childhood is different than writing as an adult? </li>
<li>How can I tap into the interests and attitudes young students bring to the writing workshop? </li>
<li>How can I approach revision with children's sensitivities and strengths in mind? </li>
<li>Are the genres I've been assigning really appropriate for young writers? </li>
<li>How can I help young writers make deliberate and long-lasting connections to the literature they read? </li>
<li>How can I simplify publishing so that children joyfully and frequently publish high-quality work? </li> </ul>In this volume, the third in a trilogy that includes Going Public and Lifetime Guarantees, Shelley provides a close-up look at the subject that has meant the most to her. Her special insight and discoveries will challenge all educators who are involved in elementary writing.

Writing Through Childhood: Rethinking Process and Product

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

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Reading Lauren's The Wonder of Word Study reminded me of . . . visits to her early childhood classroom, only this visit lasted a long time and was filled with a master teacher's articulate explanation of her practice. - Shelley Harwayne, Founding Principal, The Manhattan New School </ul> There's more to reading than merely identifying words on a page. To achieve fluency, emerging readers must analyze, decode, and reconstruct new words in predictable ways. That's where word study comes in, and in The Wonder of Word Study, you'll find out how to make the task fun while you develop independence in your students.

The Wonder of Word Study: Lessons and Activities to Create Independent Readers, Writers, and Spellers

Lucht, Lauren Berman

For the first time, Shelley Harwayne shares her own writing minilessons with you. Combining her passion for reading adult literature with her commitment to supporting students' efforts to produce powerful and effective writing, Harwayne presents fifty-seven lessons for upper elementary and middle school that take teaching with exemplar texts in a dynamic new direction. Each minilesson includes passages from carefully chosen novels, all of which feature children as main characters. You'll find lessons built around passages from such famed writers as Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Sandra Cisneros, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Pete Hamill, Elizabeth Berg, Rebecca Wells, Philip Roth, Ann Beattie, Ursula Hegi, and Jamaica Kincaid, lessons that will inspire students to be as inquisitive, observant, and reflective as their fictional counterparts. The minilessons in Novel Perspectives contain the actual words Harwayne uses in sharing these lessons with students and are divided into five categories: <ul>
<li>discovering topics</li> <li>marveling at the world</li> <li>revising writing</li> <li>loving language</li> <li>learning from fictional characters who take their reading and writing seriously.</li> </ul> Each minilesson promotes engagement with text as a way into successful writing but also stimulates classroom conversation, builds community, fights passivity, and gives students a chance to reinforce the notion that their lives are worth writing about. Novel Perspectives will inspire you to make time for your own reading and to begin merging your passion for books with your passion for teaching. Keep it next to your stack of must-reads, and as you discover passages perfect for your classroom, consult it for the best way to energize your writing workshop.

Novel Perspectives: Writing Minilessons Inspired by the Children in Adult Fiction

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Getting Grammar is a book chock full of inviting ways to share grammar information with students. But it is so much more. - Shelley Harwayne </ul>
Getting Grammar is a new take on an old - fashioned subject - a slim, practical guide with more than 150 fresh ideas for addressing parts of speech and sentence structure, from teaching it, to learning it, to adapting it for students whose home language isn't English. Because of its accessibility and practicality, you'll keep Getting Grammar close at hand because it's a ready reference for your own grammar questions and a treasure trove of teaching ideas. Whether you are a veteran teacher, a new teacher, or a preservice teacher, Donna Hooker Topping and Sandra Josephs Hoffman offer plenty of information and lessons you can use in the classroom right away, including: <ul>
<li>a quick review of the grammatical concepts you'll be teaching</li> <li>more than 150 engaging ways to teach it through authentic literature, writing, movement, games, music, art, even drama</li> <li>smart advice for supporting English learners as they encounter grammar in a new language</li> <li>assessment tips and tools.</li> </ul>
In addition Getting Grammar includes information about the grammar of other languages that can help you evaluate students' proficiency with English syntax and assist them in transitioning from the familiar word order and usage rules of their first language to those of English. Grammar is a vitally important subject to understand for reading and writing, and it's now a part of many state and national assessment tests. Give students a fresh, fun way to explore grammar, teach with Getting Grammar and find out how exciting grammar can be.

Getting Grammar: 150 New Ways to Teach an Old Subject

Topping, Donna

Hoffman, Sandra

Grades K-8 This staff development guidebook (available free with the video) provides a rich storehouse of more than fifty workshop activities, plus recommended readings and new insight on each topic. It is organized according to the major themes of the accompanying videotape, including writing with purpose and consequence. Also available - The Writing Workshop Video / ISBN 0435084488 / VHS / 1987

The Writing Workshop: A World of Difference

Literature & Fiction

CALKINS, LUCY

History & Criticism

Living Between the Lines is a heartening invitation to bring new life into reading-writing workshops. Calkins has woven insights, practical suggestions, references, and anecdotes into this inspirational story of a community of educators who have pushed back the frontiers of what we know about teaching writing and reading. Personal in approach and comprehensive in presentation, this book includes: 08538 
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<li>the story of how writers' notebooks and a new attention to rehearsal have led to important revisions in many writing workshops </li> <li>major chapters on establishing courses of study in which children read and write memoir, nonfiction, and picturebooks </li> <li>a new look at the qualities of good writing and ways we can help children grow into them </li> <li>references to the best of children's literature and to ways these books can enrich our classrooms </li> <li>an invitation to pioneer new ideas about conferring, record keeping, mini-lessons, and organizational structures for the workshop. </li> </ul>

Living Between the Lines

In this practical book filled with the stories of real children, Shelley Harwayne invites readers to explore the diverse roles literature plays in any writing workshop. The author re-examines the familiar workshop structures of mini-lessons, conferences, author-studies, and reader response groups and adds several new and surprising ways to weave literature into students' writing lives. These include using literature to: 
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<li>build classroom community </li> <li>understand students' literary histories </li> <li>facilitate keeping a writer's notebook </li> <li>discover important writing topics </li> <li>put listening at the core of students' writing processes </li> <li>inspire lifelong investigations of good writing. </li> </ul> The text follows the chronology of a school year and is studded with literature excerpts, student writing samples, record-keeping devices, case studies, and vignettes of classroom life. In Lasting Impressions, Shelley Harwayne draws upon her travels, her speeches, and her family life, but mainly on her passion for putting fine literature into the hands and hearts of young children. It will be a valuable resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, especially those who wonder if the literature that lines their classroom walls is making a lasting impression on their students' lives and their writing.

Lasting Impressions: Weaving Literature into the Writing Workshop

Children's Books

In this practical book filled with the stories of real children, Shelley Harwayne invites readers to explore the diverse roles literature plays in any writing workshop. The author re-examines the familiar workshop structures of mini-lessons, conferences, author-studies, and reader response groups and adds several new and surprising ways to weave literature into students' writing lives. These include using literature to:  build classroom community  understand students' literary histories  facilitate keeping a writer's notebook  discover important writing topics  put listening at the core of students' writing processes  inspire lifelong investigations of good writing.   The text follows the chronology of a school year and is studded with literature excerpts, student writing samples, record-keeping devices, case studies, and vignettes of classroom life. In Lasting Impressions, Shelley Harwayne draws upon her travels, her speeches, and her family life, but mainly on her passion for putting fine literature into the hands and hearts of young children. It will be a valuable resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, especially those who wonder if the literature that lines their classroom walls is making a lasting impression on their students' lives and their writing.

LASTING IMPRESSIONS: WEAVING LITERATURE INTO THE WRITING WORKSHOP

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