Articles

Infusing Young Adult Literature into High School English, InLand (2011)
 

What’s My Line? Considering the Teacher Educator's Role When Action Research is Added to Student Teaching, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices: Navigating the Public and Private: Negotiating the Diverse Landscape of Teacher Education (2010)
 

Classroom Filmmaking: A Learning Experience (with Don Evans), InLand (2008)
 

The D&D Boys: What’s Wrong With This Picture? (with Maggie Chase), InLand (2007)
 

Using The Original Approach to Teach Shakespeare, English Journal (2005)

By using a teaching method simulating the experience of the actors of the Elizabethan stage,...

 

Weaving Workplace Writing into the English Classroom, English Journal (2001)

Often the question surrounding workplace literacy is not so much whether English teachers should bring...

 

Good Fences, Good Neighbors, InLand (2001)
 

Bringing Workplace Literacy into the Classroom (with Angela Harvey, Ruthanne Beddoe, Pam Walker, Dedra Scoville, Vicki Malan, and Bernice Scarborough), InLand (1999)
 

Worth the Effort, InLand (1998)
 

Foregrounding the Background, English Journal (1998)

Robbins discusses how to better prepare students for reading the classics. Rather than providing a...

 

Growing Into Leadership: Profiles from a "Good" Department (with Driek Zirinsky), English Journal (1996)

The veteran teacher is often a leader in the English language arts department and mentor...

 

Staffing the Drama Program: An Alternative View, National Association of Secondary School Principals (1996)

School drama directors--who are often responsible for producing up to four plays per year, along...

 

Vaporizing Classroom Walls: The Writing Workshop Goes Electric (with Kris Fischer), Voices from the Middle (1996)

Kurt shows Donna his poem, which begins, "My hand, writing words into pictures . ....

 

Teachers as Writers: Tension Between Theory and Practice, Journal of Teaching Writing (1996)

"Teachers of writing should be writers themselves."

Of course. Common sense suggests that teachers ought...

 

The Honors Portfolio: One Case of Departmental Innovation (with Driek Zirinsky), English Leadership Quarterly (1995)
 

The Teacher's Role in Teaching Shakespeare, Arizona English Bulletin (1994)
 

It's Not that Simple: Some Teachers as Writers, English Journal (1992)

The advice that teachers of writing should write sounds simple but can become quite complex....

 

Playwriting: Not Just For Dramatists, InLand (1991)
 

Contributions to Books

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Bringing Filmmaking into the English Language Arts Classroom, Literacies, the Arts and Multimodality (2010)

Like many English teachers, I recognize the need to adapt to the world of new...

 

Presentations

Combining the Arts and Literacy (with Isaac Larison), National Council of Teachers of English (2010)
 

What’s My Line? Considering the Teacher Educators’ Role when Action Research is Added to Student Teaching, Herstmonceux VIII Conference of the Special Interest Group in Self-Study (S-STEP), American Educational Research Association (2010)
 

Collaborative Inquiry Projects that Enhance Everyone’s Professional Development, Conference on English Education (2009)