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Be a Writer—Your Guide to the Writing Life
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The Leverage Factory, Inc. Steve Peha & Margot Carmichael Lester The Word Factory Pen Ultimate Anny B. Thompson Pete Minnelli & Anny B. Thompson
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Copyright © 2006 by Steve Peha and Margot Carmichael Lester. Portions Copyright © 1995-2005 by Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. Used by permission
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All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce or transmit in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system, (including but not limited to the Internet) must be obtained by writing to the publisher at the address below.
Published by: The Leverage Factory, Inc. 1473 NW Lewis St. Bend, OR 97701
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Printed in the United States of America
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DEDICATION To my mother, Donna Peha, my first teacher, and the one who taught me everything I know that really matters about how to help kids succeed.
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To my father, Marc Peha, who passed away during the writing of this book. He was an enthusiastic storyteller always eager to find a new audience.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Steve Peha Steve Peha is a leading voice on reading, writing, and education reform. As the founder of Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. (TTMS), he has developed strategies that help teachers deliver more effective instruction and help kids improve their literacy skills.
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TTMS provides education consulting, teacher training, and classroom modeling to school districts in the U.S. and Canada using the Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop method. In his materials, workshops, and books, Steve combines the best of classroom practice with a realworld, results-oriented perspective that makes teaching more practical for teachers and learning more meaningful kids.
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Since founding TTMS in 1995, Steve has delivered hundreds of workshops for teachers, administrators, and parents. He has also addressed school boards, PTAs, and other organizations to discuss current challenges in education reform.
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A trusted source for education journalists, he is widely quoted in the media discussing everything from teacher pay and high-stakes testing to the Achievement Gap and No Child Left Behind. His comments and opinion pieces have appeared in USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Austin American-Statesman, and The Milwaukee JournalSentinel, as well as in School Reform News and District Administration magazines. In 2001, Steve was asked by The Seattle Times to write The Effective Learning Series, a bi-weekly column on best practice teaching that won the Innovators in Education Award from the Newspaper Association of America. Over the years, he has contributed more than 200 columns to this program, most recently an 18-part series on life skills for high school students. Steve holds a BA in English from Boston University. He lives in Charrboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Margot Carmichael Lester, and their dog, Ursa. For more information on Steve, visit the Teaching That Makes Sense website at www.ttms.org. .
Margot Carmichael Lester Margot Carmichael Lester stays on top of two careers, plying her trade as a professional writer and also as a business consultant.
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Margot’s writing appears regularly in magazines and newspapers as well as on the web. Her business journalism has been featured in Money Magazine, Multifamily Executive Magazine, The Los Angeles Business Journal, The Los Angeles Downtown News, The Triangle Business Journal and the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer. She is the author of The Real Life Guide to Life After College and The Real Life Guide to Starting Your Career. Her career advice appears monthly on Monster.com and in newspaper and magazine stories nationally.
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Margot is also a love advice columnist, writing weekly for Match.com and MSN. In this capacity, she is frequently quoted as a relationship expert in publications around the country and on local, regional, and internet radio stations.
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Prior to founding The Word Factory, her writing and consulting business, Margot served as director of marketing for the nationally-ranked Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Margot began her writing career in high school as the school page columnist for her hometown paper, The Chapel Hill (N.C.) News. Margot holds a BA in Journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband, Steve Peha, and their dog, Ursa. For more information on Margot, visit her website at www.margotlester.com.
