AUTHORS IN THE CLASSROOM by Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada has just been released by Allyn & Bacon.

This book represents the fruits of eight years of joint efforts of encouraging teachers to dare to experience the joy of writing. It has also benefited from the insights of Rosalma Zubizarreta, Alma Flor’s daughter, who collaborated enthusiastically in the making of the book.

While most teachers feel comfortable sharing their enthusiasm for reading with their students, few feel equally at ease in exploring the power of authorship.

The process suggested in this book for authoring self-reflecting books, has been embraced by numerous teachers who have found that in writing personal books about themselves, their families, their life journey, and their goals as teachers bring about three distinct kinds of benefits:

1. a greater self-awareness and a possibility to reevaluate their own vocation as educators

2. greater confidence and strength to guide their students in their own process of discovering of voice

3. a new relationship, of greater trust and equality, with the students families’ based on shared human experiences

We are extremely grateful to the teachers, families and students who have shared with us their works to be included as examples in this book and to all those others, whose words have not been reproduced in the book, but who are present in it, through all we have learned from them in the process of teaching “Authors in the Classroom” courses, workshops and seminars throughout the United States and abroad. We know many of you have been anxiously awaiting the publication of this book and it is a joy to let you know it is finally available.

Published by Allyn & Bacon
Available in English at : www.delsolbooks.com and 1-888-335-7651.