Explores the issue of teacher research in the language arts. Contributors examine topics like writing development, collaboration in the classroom, self-assessment, and extending the range of student writing. Several authors investigate in their essays the ways teachers describe their classrooms, both what teachers include in their stories and what they omit.

Contributors to this volume of Workshop include Regie Routman, author of Transitions and Invitations, fiction writer Jean Craighead George, author/illustrator Barbara Cooney, and Donald Murray, contributing an essay on poetry as a way of knowing.