The idea that significant professional knowledge can result from practice and its careful analysis merits reemphasis. (MJB)

There is a critical difference between what educational researchers know and what educational practitioners do. Curriculum workers, who are the most important variable in improving the quality of education, must not only use research but must become a part of the R process. (HD)

This article describes some implications of using a multiple literacies perspective in the construction and implementation of literacy curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in early childhood and elementary classrooms. After briefly laying out a theoretical perspective in sections focusing on early literacy, academic learning, literacy beyond…