Colleague Denise Lindner has been accepted as a teacher intern at Nancie Atwell’s Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb, Maine. Denise’s star qualities, evident to everyone who works with her, distinguished her from a wide national pool of applicants. She’s at the Center all next week.

Visit Denise’s blog and leave questions about Nancie’s work and school.

For those of you not familiar with Nancie Atwell’s groundbreaking work in turning the classroom into a genuine and rigorous experience of literacy, watch her “talkabout” videos here, about mid-page (Scholastic won’t let me embed them). :)