Joe Bower is a teacher in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. He spent 10 years teaching grade eight language arts and science in a middle school, and is now a special education teacher in a children ? s psychiatric assessment unit. Follow his work at www.joebower.org and @joe_bower. P. L. Thomas, Associate Professor of Education (Furman University, Greenville SC), taught high school English in rural South Carolina before moving to teacher education.
He is currently a column editor for English Journal (National Council of Teachers of English) and series editor for Critical Literacy Teaching Series : Challenging Authors and Genres (Sense Publishers). Follow his work at http ://wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com/ and @plthomasEdD.