[RSCT] New from Rethinking School: Linda Christensen's Teaching for Joy and Justice

[Bob Peterson]

New from Rethinking Schools!




Teaching for Joy and Justice

Save $5.00 off Linda Christensen's new book!

Rethinking Schools Press is excited to announce the publication of a  
new book by nationally renowned teacher and writer Linda Christensen  
— Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-imagining the Language Arts  
Classroom.

If you have read her bestselling Reading, Writing and Rising Up, or  
followed her articles in Rethinking Schools magazine, you know why  
she has achieved legendary status among classroom teachers and  
university-based educators alike.

By using this special promo code 5BTEFO5, you can purchase copies of  
Teaching for Joy and Justice for $14.95 - that's $5.00 off the list  
price. Call 800-669-4192 or visit www.rethinkingschools.org/ 
publication/tfjj/tfjj.shtml. Remember to use the promo code 5BTEFO5

Teaching for Joy and Justice combines concrete, hands-on advice with  
inspiration, hope, and joy. As Christensen writes in her  
introduction, the book begins "with the non-negotiable belief that  
all students are capable of brilliance."

Christensen's 287-page book covers all aspects of the language arts  
curriculum, from reading and understanding literature, to writing  
poetry, narratives, and essays. She also helps her students  
understand the relationship between language and power, and provides  
guidance for teachers on complicated topics such as grading student  
work.

Part curriculum guide, part autobiography, part critique of  
standardized mandates, Teaching for Joy and Justice is based on  
Christensen's more than 30 years experience as a classroom teacher,  
language arts specialist, and teacher educator. It combines examples  
of how to teach for social justice with heart-stopping excerpts from  
student writing.

Some of the many accolades for Teaching for Joy and Justice:

• "Linda Christensen gets it," says Pedro Noguera, a professor in  
the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University.  
"Christensen provides practical advice to teachers with an  
understanding that when our students learn to write, they experience  
a sense of joy and fulfillment."

• "Linda Christensen — consummate teacher and brilliant writer —  
shows us that, in the end, teaching well is about awakening and  
transformation," says Sonia Nieto, a Professor Emerita at the  
University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• "Teaching for Joy and Justice gives teachers the inspiration and  
'how to' nitty-gritty that we crave," says Fay Peitzman, director of  
the UCLA Writing Project.

Remember, save $5.00 for each copy of Teaching for Joy and Justice  
you buy by calling 800-669-4192 or visiting www.rethinkingschools.org/ 
publication/tfjj/tfjj.shtml and using the promo code 5BTEFO5.

Thanks for your support.

Michael Trokan
Rethinking Schools


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