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THE PHILADELPHIA WRITING PROJECT

The Philadelphia Writing Project supports and encourages site-wide as well as individual publications of practitioner research, educator reflections, and collaborative work in our schools. 

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Research and Publications by PhilWP Members

PhilWP Journal

The PhilWP Journal, written by PhilWP teacher consultants, was developed as a resource to (1) share promising practices among teacher consultants, (2) publish probing reflections from teacher consultants regarding teaching and learning, and (3) showcase for a wider audience the wealth of experiences and ideas that constitute the network.

PhilWP Journal Archive

Other Publications

Shirley P. Brown: Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement (co-authored with Alice E. Ginsberg and Joan Poliner Shapiro)

Shirley P. Brown: Lighting Fires (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Vanessa Brown: Human Agency, Social Action, and Classroom Practices (In Going Public with Our Teaching: An Anthology of Practice, Eds. Dilruba Ahmed, Thomas Hatch, Ann Lieberman, Deborah Faigenbaum, & Melissa Eiler White)

Vanessa Brown: Human Agency, Social Action and Classroom Practices: What happens when teachers move over to allow students to pave their own path towards enacting change?

Judy Buchanan: Listening to the Voices (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and KnowledgeEds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Amelia Coleman: Teaching Within and Beyond the Mandated Curriculum in a Fifth Grade Language Arts Classroom

Dr. George Cross III: Coolposing: Secrets of Black Male Leadership in America

Mattie Davis: Building a Community of Writers in a First Grade Classroom

Deidre R. Farmbry: The Warriors, the Worrier, and the Word (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Dr. Bob Fecho: “Is this English?”: Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom

Dr. Bob Fecho: No Deposit, No Return: Enriching Literacy Teaching and Learning Through Critical Inquiry Pedagogy (co-authored with Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Michelle Commeyras, Sharon Dowling Cox, Bren Daniell, Ellen Elrick, Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, Elizabeth Hogan, Andrea Pintaone-Hernandez, Kathy Roulston, Amanda Siegel, Hope Vaughn Jennifer Aaron)

Dr. Bob Fecho: Cityscapes: Eight Views from the Urban Classroom (co-authored with Howard Banford, Myron Berkman, Carole Chin, Christine Cziko)

Dr. Bob Fecho: Reading as a Teacher (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge,Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Mickey Harris: Looking Back: 20 Years of a Techer’s Journal (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Teri Hines, Bruce Bowers & Vanessa Brown: The Philadelphia Writing Project’s Leadership Inquiry Seminar: Continuity Linked to Site Mission and Local Context

Rhoda Drucker Kanevsky: Descriptive Review of a Child: A Way of Knowing About Teaching and Learning (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Dr. Susan Lytle: Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation (co-authored with Marilyn Cochran-Smith)

Dr. Susan Lytle: Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge (co-authored with Marilyn Cochran-Smith)

Gillian Maimon: Practitioner Inquiry as Mediated Emotion (in Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation, Eds. M. Cochran-Smith & S.L. Lytle)

Gillian Maimon: Creating Structures that Facilitate Independence in a First Grade Classroom

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus: Beyond “Wiggle Room”: Creating spaces for authentic learning in a twelfth-grade English class. (In Learning from the Student’s Perspective: A Sourcebook for Effective Teaching, Ed. Alison Cook-Sather)

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus: Following the Paper Trail (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus: Learning from Laramie: Urban High School Students Read, Research, and Reenact The Laramie Project (In Going Public with Our Teaching: An Anthology of Practice, Eds. Dilruba Ahmed, Thomas Hatch, Ann Lieberman, Deborah Faigenbaum, & Melissa Eiler White)

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus: Playing with the Possible: Teaching, Learning, and Drama on the Second Stage

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus: Double Double, Toil and Trouble: Engaging Urban High School Students in the Study of Shakespeare

Dr. Diane Waff: On Teacher Inquiry:Approaches to Language and Literacy (co-authored with Dixie Goswami, Ceci Lewis, & Marty Rutherford)

Dr. Diane Waff: Reconceptualizing the literacies in adolescents’ lives (co-edited with Donna Alvermann, Kathleen Hinchman, David Moore, Stephen Phelps)

Dr. Diane Waff: An Insider Voice: Leading as a teacher (in Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation, Eds. M. Cochran-Smith & S.L. Lytle)

Dr. Diane Waff & Suzann Ordile: Creating Space for Diverse Perspectives and Student Learning: An Illustrated Case of an Inquiry into a High School English Classroom

Lynne Yermanock Strieb: Inviting Families into the Classroom: Learning from a Life in Teaching

Deborah Jumpp & Lynne Yermanock Strieb: Journals for Collaboration, Curriculum, and Assessment (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)

Lynne Yermanock Strieb: Visiting and Revisiting the Trees (In Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, Eds. Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle)