James Coleman
Melissa McMullan
WRITER
Writer
- "Suspend Annual Testing and Focus on Student Needs" was posted in October of 2020 on Diane Ravitch's blog.
- "Problem-Based Learning in the Writing Curriculum: Supporting the Development of Writers I a Flourishing Writing Community" explores the Problem-Based Learning experiences in my classroom.
- The following article was published in our union newsletter.
- For my dissertation, I maintained three types of notes: research that documents sessions with my research partner, observational notes that describe observations in her classroom and pontifications to "just get things down" when I think of something. "How did we get from there to here?" was published in the early stages of this work.
- "Teacher to reformers: Invite us to the table" was published in the Washington Post.
- I returned to teaching after conducting research with the New Literacies Team at the University of Connecticut, and giving birth to three children in two years. It was shocking to find that the standardized testing culture, holding teachers "accountable" for how their students performed on these tests, and the consequential destruction of rich, child centered instruction had taken hold in such a short time. Over the next ten years, I fought against these changes with advocates for public education, both parents and children. In 2012, my own two children were the only children in our entire school district to refuse New York State's testing program. I am fortunate to work in a district that hovers around 85% refusal. Here is my writing during that time.
- In 2001, I began my first (and only) full-time teaching position. In my third year, I was offered a fellowship at the University of Connecticut, with the New Literacies Team. Here is a piece that was published in The Reading Teacher, February 2004, co-authored by the research team.
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