Biography
Linda Christensen is the Director of the Oregon Writing Project (OWP), located in the Graduate School of Education at Lewis & Clark College. The OWP is part of the National Writing Project network, the oldest and largest professional development project in the United States. NWP sites use a teacher-teaching-teachers model that draws on the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of successful classroom teachers. Linda is the author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word and co-editor of Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom and Rethinking Our Classrooms. She has given keynote addresses at local, national, and international conferences about her work on literacy and social justice. Her articles about literacy and social justice have appeared in numerous journals. For the last thirty years, she has taught high school Language Arts and worked as Language Arts Curriculum Specialist in Portland, Oregon. She is a member of the Rethinking Schools editorial board. She received the Fred Heschinger Award for use of research in teaching and writing from National Writing Project in 1998 and the U.S. West Outstanding Teacher of Western United States for “Reaching Beyond Classroom Walls”.
