HEART OF THE MATTER:
The Role of Attitude in Teaching
by Arthur D. Willis and Marcia M. Greenberg
$23.99

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Arthur D. Willis received his B.A. in political science and history from Northwestern University and a MAT in history from the University at Albany, SUNY. He has taught Social Studies and English at Arlington Heights High School in Illinois and at the Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was one of the founders of the Leysin American School in Leysin Switzerland, where he designed curriculum for both the English and Social Studies departments. He has chaired social studies departments in the public schools of Vorrheesville, New York and Rhinebeck New York.

Art has been a consultant at the University at Albany, SUNY, training teachers in writing and literary ideology. These two groups spawned the Capital District Writers’ Project and the Literary Ideology Project respectively. He has also worked with the education department at the University at Massachusetts, Amherst, where he helped establish the National Alternative Program.
Art currently resides in the capital region of New York State, and has five children and six grandchildren. He is also a published poet.

Marcia M. Greenberg received her B.A. in early European History from Mount Holyoke College and has an M.A. in special education from the University at Albany, SUNY. She has worked for St Ann’s School in Albany, New York, teaching math and GED preparation to emotionally challenged students. She has also helped create programs for developmentally delayed infants and toddlers; tutored all four core subjects for grades 7-12 and helped establish a gifted and talented program for elementary school students, as well as working in the Reading Partners project, an after school reading program, designed to help elementary students with reading problems.

Marcia has also worked at the University at Albany graduate program in special education and was an adjunct professor, where she helped develop a practicum course for uncertified graduate students based on the Reading Partners model.

Marcia resides in the capital region of New York State and she and her husband have four children and six grandchildren.

About the Illustrator:

Sandra Peterson received her formal training at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and at Northern Illinois University. Her paintings have been shown at many juried and group exhibitions, including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cudahy Gallery of Wisconsin Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum and at the Bradley Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sandra has also taught at Gateway Technical Institute and at McHenry County College. In addition Sandra helps run and is a co-owner of two art galleries in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

Sandra and her family reside in Door County Wisconsin.

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