Cynthia D UrbanksiCynthia D. Urbanski is a former middle school and high school teacher and mother of two children. She is currently a freelance Ethnographer, teacher for North Carolina Virtual Public Schools, and Adjunct Graduate faculty at Gardner-Webb Univerity and a Teacher Consultant for the UNC Charlotte Writing Project. Her best days are those when teachers let her teach their classes. She is the author of The Workshop Approach to High School English, Untangling Middle School Reform and co-author of Thinking Out Loud on Paper and Making Middle School. She has a PhD in Urban Literacy K-12. Read More Read Less