article_snippet: The writing teacher told the Daily Mail Online
article_snippet: The writing teacher plans to celebrate when The writing teacher returns, but is more interested in getting back to The writing teacher children at The Center for Teaching and Learning.
article_snippet: After accepting the award, The writing teacher thanked The writing teacher colleagues and said: 'I love my teaching life - the intellectual, social, and personal challenges of working with young people and the satisfaction of developing methods that transform young people and the satisfaction of developing methods that transform their lives and give them perspective on the lives of others lives and give young people and the satisfaction of developing methods that transform their lives and give them perspective on the lives of others perspective on the lives of others.
article_snippet: During an interview last week, Atwell said Atwell's 'convinced that teaching language arts is one of the great careers', because it's 'demanding', but also 'meaning-filled' and 'interesting'.
article_snippet: Atwell said: 'I get to demonstrate what is possible, teach what is useful, establish conditions that invite engagement, support the hard work of literary reading and writing, and enjoy the kinds of relationships with adolescents that drew me to education in the first place. '
article_snippet: Because my students select the books my students read and the subjects my students write about, I'm able to help my students discover what reading and writing are good for, here and now and in my students literate lives to come. '
article_snippet: There is nothing more important than putting the right book in a child's hands at the right time.'
article_snippet: Atwell built an 'excellent classroom library',  in hopes of letting Atwell own students discover what her own students wanted to read on her own students own. '
article_snippet: I worry that educational bureaucrats have a problem with pleasure,' Atwell told USA Today, 'that if kids are enjoying what kids're doing, it can't be rigorous or worthwhile.'