Shelley Harwayne was affiliated with the New York City public schools for more than thirty years as a teacher, staff developer, codirector of the Teachers College Writing Project, founding principal of the Manhattan New School, and superintendent of District #2 in New York City. She has worked as a consultant and keynote speaker throughout the world and has published numerous books and videos with Heinemann including
Learning to Confer (2004),
Writing Through Childhood (2001),
Lifetime Guarantees (2000),
Going Public (1999),
Lasting Impressions (1992),
Living Between the Lines (1990), and
The Writing Workshop: a World of Difference (1987). In addition, Shelley has published two children's books:
Jewels and
What's Cooking?.
Donna Hooker Topping has spent more than 30 years collaborating with Roberta McManus her coauthor on Stuck in the Middle. They have developed strategies that help students learn content through better teaching. “Better teaching, to us, is the result of a teacher’s conscious effort to embed literacy processes into content-area instruction. Resulting lessons lead students through the very strategic moves in reading and writing that lead to fuller comprehension of the content, strategies that will prepare them for lifelong learning.” Donna is Professor of Literacy Education at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. She is a former first-grade teacher, reading specialist, reading supervisor, language arts supervisor, and literacy consultant. She and Roberta are also coauthors of the Heinemann title Real Reading, Real Writing and Donna also coauthored the Heinemann book Getting Grammar with Sandra Josephs Hoffman.
Sandra Josephs Hoffman is a professor of literacy education at Millersville University. She has taught, observed, and supervised in all grades from kindergarten to graduate school. As a teacher-researcher, she regularly studies her own practices to refine her undergraduate and graduate teaching.
