Hands Down, Speak Out: Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math - Paperback

by Kassia Omohundro Wedekind (Author), Christy Hermann Thompson (Author)

Few skills are as critical or as rare today as the ability to hear and comprehend what other people are saying.

Author Biography

Kassia Omohundro Wedekind spent many wonderful years as a classroom teacher and math coach in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia and now splits her time between being an independent math coach and an editor at Stenhouse Publishers. Her favorite days are spent in classrooms learning from the many ways children talk, listen and negotiate meaning together.

Christy Hermann Thompson is a Literacy Coach in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. She has spent her teaching and coaching career particularly focused on listening to and learning from the talk of our youngest students.