Understanding Literacy and Policy from a Classroom Teacher's Perspective

We are so proud to be incoming co-editors of the literacy policy column for JAAL. desire open a forum that illuminates how functions in contemporary settings, especially relation teaching and learning. Our experiences as teachers, teacher educators, scholars has taught us knowledge about is powerful. Such can make one feel less like victim politicians policy-makers inspire advocacy. It also help teachers work around even resist uninformed poorly-designed policies. During our tenure, we will strive present observations an interesting way--because problem with learning writing it too often unnecessarily technical, legalistic, down-right dull. This first looks carefully at shower policies rains down on teacher, making seemingly mundane request from peers veritable deluge decisions.