ABOUT ME

I am a writer and an educator. As a writer, I focus on poetry.

I currently teach English and English Education classes at Montclair State University, in New Jersey.

have taught English (high school & college) for more than 35 years.

Since 2007, I have been sharing work related to shifts in teaching reading and writing, for secondary and university students. These shifts have included but have not been limited to the development of an inquiry and action curricular framework which urges and scaffolds reading shifts.

My students’ work, generated through the inquiry-driven framework as well as through other approaches, is the essential source of my learning about  reading shifts. I continue to deepen my thinking and perspective through reading of, and conversation with, theorists and other educators.

Through this site and beyond it, I seek to help other educators make shifts in their thinking about higher-level reading practices that are relevant to the world in which we live.