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Maureen Barbieri has taught middle school in
New Hampshire, New York, and Ohio, and high school in
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 and
language acquisitions courses in the Department of Teaching
and Learning at New York University’s Steinhardt School
of Education, where she co-directed a summer writing
institute in 2000. She is also a member of the faculty
of the University of New Hampshire’s Summer Literacy
Institutes, where she specializes in teaching poetry.
Her
first 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.
She is the author of numerous articles in English
Journal, Language Arts, and Voices from
the Middle, all NCTE publications, and the co-editor
of Meeting the Challenges, All That Matters:
What Is It We Value in School and Beyond, Workshop
6: The Teacher as Writer, and “We Want to Be
Known:” Lessons from Adolescent Girls. For five
years she was the founding co-editor of NCTE’s Voices
from the Middle, a journal for middle school teachers.
Her most recent book is Change My Life Forever: Giving
Voice to English Language Learners.
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