Maureen Barbieri

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.