Teaching Lives: Essays & Stories Book

	Preface: Why Write About Teaching Lives?
Pt. I	Composing Ourselves in the Writing Classroom	1
1	Writing Teachers and Writing Process: Combining Theory and Practice	4
2	Helping Peer Writing Groups Succeed	14
3	Designing A Writing Portfolio Evaluation System	25
4	Co-authoring Changes the Writing Classroom: Students Authorizing the Self, Authoring Together	33
5	Teaching "Grammar for Writers" in a Process Workshop Classroom	43
Pt. II	Composing Ourselves as Readers	57
6	The Literary Text and the Writing Classroom	60
7	Teaching Writing Teachers to Teach Reading for Writing	82
8	"Traveling through the Dark": Teachers and Students Reading and Writing Together	104
Pt. III	Composing Ourselves as Department Members and Administrators	119
9	Learning Our Own Ways to Situate Composition and Feminist Studies in the English Department	123
10	Writing Is/And Therapy?: Raising Questions About Writing Classrooms and Writing Program Administration	143
11	You Can Take the Girl Out of the Writing Center, But You Can't Take the Writing Center Out of the Girl: Reflections on the Sites We Call Centers	157
12	Let Me Tell You About the Rocks	167
Pt. IV	Composing Ourselves as Researchers	175
13	Students Stories and the Variable Gaze of Composition Research	177
14	Attitudes and Expectations: How Theory in the Graduate Student (Teacher) Complicates the English Curriculum	192
15	Having Been There: The Second Ethnography and On	208
Pt. V	Composing Ourselves as (Creative) Writers	219
16	Crossing the Lines: On Creative Composition and Composing Creative Writing	221
17	On Learning to Like Teaching Creative Writing	236
18	Poetry as a Therapeutic Process: Realigning Art and the Unconscious	252
19	What We (Might) Write About When We Write (Autobiographical) Non-Fiction	264
20	The Shape of Fact	281
Pt. VI	Composing Ourselves Through Teaching	293
21	If Winston Weathers Would Just Write to Me On E-Mail: A Response to David Bartholomae and Peter Elbow	295
22	Letting the Boundaries Draw Themselves: What Theory and Practice Have Been Trying to Tell Us - An Exchange	22
23	Teaching Lives: Thoughts on Reweaving Our Spirits	313
	Works Cited	321
	Index	341