Meeting the Challenges

Maureen Barbieri has taught middle school in New Hampshire, Ohio, and South Carolina. Since coming to New York, she has been a staff developer in District 2 and a divisional head at Marymount, an all girls' independent school. In addition to frequent consulting, she now teaches literacy courses in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, where she co-directs the summer writing institute. Her book, Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls (Heinemann, 1995), received the James N. Britton Award for Inquiry with the English Language Arts from the National Council of Teachers of English as well as the International Educator's Award from the Delta Kappa Gamma Society.

Carol Tateishi has taught English to middle school students in the Bay Area for over fourteen years. She also spent two years in London teaching upper elementary children. Currently, she is the director of the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California at Berkeley, and an associate director of the National Writing Project. She has conducted workshops on the teaching of writing throughout the Bay Area, various cities across the country, and in Japan, Korea, and Puerto Rico.