Teacher at Point Blank Readings and Signing Events Calendar
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 09:54PM 
Thursday October 21, San Francisco
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7:30 PM
Thursday November 4, Inland Empire
Inlandia Foundation Reading at Arts Walk
6:30 PM
Friday November 19, Seattle
4:30 PM
Saturday November 20, Seattle
2-4 PM
NCTE Donald Murray Prize Winner
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 12:53PM ;)
"Recovering Teacher," a piece published in 2009 by Memoir(and), has just been awarded the NCTE Donald Murray Prize for work about writing and/or teaching writing.
You can see a sneak peek at Memoir(and).
The entire essay will appear in my collection, Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets at a Suburban School, when Aunt Lute Books releases it in September 2010.
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My Letter in The LA Times
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 03:01PM 
Following Monday's report in the Los Angeles Times about "what it's really like" navigating discipline in a real-life, real-time classroom, I sent in a letter which appeared today.
One curiosity to me (pointed out by my husband) is that of the five letters published, four come from education professionals--and, of those four, I'm the solitary woman voice.
Women statistically outnumber men in pink-collar K-12--and have, for nearly 150 years. The current ratio among professionals is nearly 8 to 2.
Where are you, Ladies? And what do you have to say about your workplace?
2009 NWSA Conference in Atlanta
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 01:27AM I am fortunate to be presenting in a panel discussion Sunday November 15 with co-authors from (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience (Cambridge Scholars Press 2009).
My paper explores a nearly ten-year legal case of student-on-teacher sexual bullying that took place in an affluent area of Los Angeles.
You can access the full chapter, "Language Teachers and the Law: Resisting Silence," in PDF form here.