AASU Professor Publishes Book about Her Experience as a Suburban Middle School Teacher

Savannah, GA—February 9, 2005—Two new books, The Meat and Potatoes of Middle School Writing: That Extends Across All Disciplines, and Don’t Stop Telling Those Stories: Recollections from Middle School Suburbia, written by Brenda E. Logan, assistant professor of middle, secondary, and adult education at Armstrong Atlantic State University, will be published in late spring and will be available at the AASU bookstore. Logan’s first book, Diary of a Suburban Middle School Teacher, also is available.

The Meat and Potatoes of Middle School Writing: That Extends Across All Disciplines is a handbook for pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and veteran teachers who are in search of writing strategies that are meaningful, concise, comprehensible, and accessible. Each writing activity has simple and clear directions with highly motivating samples that students will find entertaining and beneficial.

Don’t Stop Telling Those Stories: Recollections from Middle School Suburbia contains a collection of 52 stories that touch the heart and soul. The stories invoke laughter, tears, anger, shock, and amazement and, ultimately, transport the reader to a place of thankfulness and humbleness. The lives of no-name adolescents become reality for readers as they plow their way through real-life experiences of a veteran middle school teacher.

A native of Savannah, Logan received a bachelor of science in English education from Savannah State College, and upon graduation she began her teaching career in Tennessee. She went on to earn her master's in curriculum and instruction from the University of Northern Colorado and completed her doctorate in curriculum leadership at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Logan is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, Association for Curriculum Development, Georgia Council of Teachers of English, Phi Delta Kappa International, and the National Middle School Association. She recently received an award for her outstanding two-year leadership as co-chair for the Middle Grades Collaborative Regional Conference coordinated by Armstrong’s College of Education and Savannah-Chatham Public Schools.