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—Lois Bridges, Vice President and Publisher, Scholastic

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About Scholastic Professional

Ongoing, relevant professional learning that is tailored for educators is critical. Scholastic supports overall professional growth in delivering high-quality literacy instruction through custom professional learning, coaching, leadership support, and renowned author thought leadership. Our offerings are designed to create lasting change and success.

Press Releases

• Scholastic and ASCD Announce Professional Learning Institute for Educators Focused on District-Wide Literacy Improvement
• New Book From Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst Helps Educators Discover Why How We Read Matters For Students
• Scholastic Launches Two New Professional Books and Celebrates Author Awards at 2016 NCTE Annual Convention
• K-5 Educators Will Harness the Power of Read Alouds with New Professional Resource from Scholastic

2016-2017 Professional Book Releases

The latest books and professional resources from leading author-experts committed to helping all teachers fulfill their professional learning needs.

• Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by Kylene Beers, Ed.D. and Robert E. Probst, Ph.D.
  In their newest professional resource for K–12 educators, award-winning authors and acclaimed literacy educators Kylene Beers, Ed.D. and Robert E. Probst, Ph.D. present a vision of what reading has the potential to be, emphasizing that it is a “changemaker” and students’ responses to their reading are crucial to the reading process. The authors frame reading as transformational rather than simply a practice of decoding, recalling, and responding to questions. They show that a student’s perception of reading as simply a set of skills results in a less-engaged reader. The book outlines a new framework developed by Beers and Probst called Book, Head, Heart (BHH) that alerts readers to pay attention to the text, their thoughts about it, what they feel, and how they might have changed by reading it. This timely book is being released just as many people are becoming aware that today’s complex media landscape has made it more important than ever for young people to become not only skillful readers, but also responsive, responsible, and compassionate readers. Learn more.
• The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers, Second Edition by Nancie Atwell & Anne Atwell Merkel
  Nancie Atwell, inaugural recipient of the Global Teacher Prize and author of the acclaimed classic In the Middle, has teamed up with her daughter, Anne, to create a blueprint for building readers for a lifetime. Drawing on a combined 50 years of expert teaching, the duo shows how K-8 classrooms can be transformed into reading zones: places where students have access to good books, choose their own, enjoy time to read them, and develop accuracy, the reading habit, and a love of literature. The authors explain methods that inspire voracious reading, including daily check-ins, mini-lessons, booktalks, books-we-love displays, and curated classroom libraries. This second edition features new chapters about conferences, close reading and discussion, written responses to books, fiction vs. nonfiction, and reading in high school, plus two lexicons to introduce and support literary analysis. The Reading Zone is a must-read for teachers, administrators, school board members, and parents, with a reproducible newsletter of practical guidelines about how they can help us help kids become the readers we all dream of. Learn more.
• Mastering Short-Response Writing: Claim It! Cite It! Cement It! by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
  In his newest instructional title, Mastering Short-Response Writing: Claim It! Cite It! Cement It!, 2007 California Teacher of the Year and celebrated trade author, Alan Sitomer, outlines the “Triple C writing system”—a sequence of writing steps that helps students, grades 3-8, write concisely and convincingly and build the skills necessary to compose evidence-based responses. Throughout Mastering Short-Response Writing, Alan leverages both his experience as an educator and professional writer by sharing practical tips and strategies to build students’ writing skills and demystify writing instruction for both novice and experienced educators throughout. Learn more.

Our Authors

Scholastic Professional authors are recipients of highly prestigious awards and appointments—from the Newbery Medal to the first Global Teacher Award to President of the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE). Scholastic Professional services, books and curricular resources are informed by authors’ pivotal research and extensive experience in classrooms, schools, and districts.

Scholastic Professional authors include:

• Kwame Alexander, Poet, Author, and Newbery Medal Winner
• Pam Allyn, Founder, LitWorld
• Nancie Atwell, Founder, Center for Teaching and Learning
• Kylene Beers, Past President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Ruth Culham, Ed.D., Founder, Culham Writing Company
• Anne E. Cunningham, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley
• Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., University of Michigan
• Ralph Fletcher, Trade and Professional Author
• Irene Fountas, Ed.D., Lesley University
• David Freeman, Ph.D., University of Texas at Brownsville
• Yvonne Freeman, Ph.D., University of Texas at Brownsville
• Stephanie Harvey, Founder, Stephanie Harvey Consulting
• Freddy Hiebert, Ph.D., Text Project
• Linda Hoyt, Professional Author and Consultant
• Phyllis C. Hunter, Founder, Phyllis C. Hunter Consulting, Inc.
• Lester L. Laminack, Author, Literacy Consultant
• Karen Mapp, Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Donalyn Miller, Trade and Professional Author
• Ernest Morrell, Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
• Robert E. Probst, Ph.D., Georgia State University
• Jan Richardson, Ph.D., Professional Author and Consultant
• Laura Robb, Professional Author and Consultant
• Jennifer Serravallo, Professional Author and Consultant
• Alan Lawrence Sitomer, Children’s Author, California Teacher of the Year Award Winner, Founder, The Writer’s Success Academy
• Michael W. Smith, Ph.D., Temple University
• Gay Su Pinnell, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• Maria Walther, Ed.D., First-Grade Teacher, Professional Author and Consultant
• Annie Ward, Ed.M, Mamaroneck Union Free School District
• Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D., Boise State University
• Sharon Zinke, Founder, Zinke Educational Consulting

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Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by Kylene Beers, Ed.D. and Robert E. Probst, Ph.D.

The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers, Second Edition by Nancie Atwell & Anne Atwell Merkel

Mastering Short-Response Writing: Claim It! Cite It! Cement It! by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Press Release Archive

• Scholastic and ASCD Launch 3-Day Professional Learning Institute for Educators Focused on District-Wide Literacy Improvement
• Scholastic Releases Two New Professional Books on K–12 Literacy Instruction
• Scholastic Education Announces New Leadership Team to Expand Professional Learning Offerings