Adolescent Literacy by Kylene Beers

Adolescent Literacy by Kylene Beers

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This is the time to think boldly about adolescent literacy. So much of what we know about adolescents and their learning has changed in the last decade, and since then both the world of education and the world at large have become very different places. Adolescent Literacy convenes a conversation among today's most important educational thinkers and practitioners to address crucial advances in research on adolescent learning, to assess which of our current practices meets the challenges of the twenty-first century, and to discover transformative ideas and methods that turn the promise of education into instructional practice.

• English language learners
• struggling readers
• technology in the classroom
• multimodal literacy
• compelling writing instruction
• teaching in a "flat world"
• young adult literature.

Kylene Beers, Ed.D., is a former middle school teacher who has made a primary focus of her research, writing, speaking, and teaching on teenage reading and struggling readers. She is the author of the best-selling When Youngsters Can't Read/What Teachers Can Do, co-editor of Adolescent Literacy: Putting Promise into Practice (with Bob Probst and Linda Rief), and co-author (with Bob Probst) of Notice and Note: Techniques for Close Reading and Reading Nonfiction, Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies (all published by Heinemann). She taught in the University of Houston's Faculty of Education, worked as a Senior Reading Researcher at Yale University's Comer School Development Program, and most recently served as the Senior Reading Adviser to Secondary Schools for Teachers College's Reading and Writing Project. Kylene has authored numerous articles for state and national publications, served as editor of Voices from the Middle, a national literacy journal, and served as President of the National Council of Teachers of English from 2008 to 2009. She speaks at state, national, and international conferences and works with elementary, middle, and high school teachers around the United States.

Kylene has worked as a consultant for the National Governors Association and received the Outstanding Leader Award from the Conference on English Leadership in 2011. Kylene is now a literacy consultant for schools both nationally and globally, working alongside her partner and co-author Bob Probst.