Jeffrey Wilhelm

Jeffrey Wilhelm is a Distinguished Professor of English Education at Boise State University and is the founding director of the Maine and Boise State Writing Projects. He is the author or co-author of 42 books about literacy teaching and learning and has earned NCTE’s Promising Research award for You Gotta BE the Book and the David H. Russell Award for distinguished research for Reading Don't Fix No Chevys, about the literate lives of young men, and for Reading Unbound, about the powers of pleasure reading and how to promote them. His latest book, Planning Powerful Instruction: 7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How They Teach - and How Students Learn, explores how guided inquiry/cognitive apprenticeship approaches can inform instruction that works for equity, social-emotional learning, deep engagement, and transformed ways of knowing, doing, thinking, and being. Jeff loves working with ARC because they share his deepest commitment to working toward equity and liberation for ALL learners through literacy.