The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5: What They Say, What They Mean, How to Teach Them

About Jim BurkeLeslie A. Blauman

Leslie Blauman has been teaching reading and literacy in the Colorado public schools for over 30 years. Leslies classroom is a working model for child/staff development in reading writing and critical thinking. Partnering with the Denver-based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC) her classroom is frequently the subject of professional workshops classroom reading enhancement films and education journals.  While she works with teachers and students in a majority of the states and internationally as a consultant her heart is in the classroom and she brings this to both her writing and her consulting.  She speaks regularly at teacher/literacy conferences and workshops.  A longtime English teacher Jim Burke is the author of more than 20 books and senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program. Jim has received several awards including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. In 2009 he created the English Companion Ningthe largest online community of English teachers in the world. More recently Jim has served on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission and the PARCC Consortium.