What You Know by Heart

As Katie shows, the most profound and effective curriculum can result from your own deep understanding of quality writingwhat you know about writing through your own and others writings and through your reading.

After leaving Western Carolina University where she was an Associate Professor of language arts education for eight years, Dr. KATIE RAY is now a full time writer and researcher of the teaching of writing. With a particular focus on the study of writing craft, she leads teacher workshops and summer institutes across the nation related to the teaching of writing. Her professional background includes both elementary and middle school teaching experience and two years as a staff developer at The Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University. Katie is also the author or co-author of four books on the teaching of writing: Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in the Whole Language Classrooms (1996, NCTE)