SONDRA PERL is Professor in the Department of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also co-founder and former director of the New York City Writing Project. In 1996 she was named New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has spent countless hours inside classrooms, documenting the work of teachers. As co-director of Looking Both Ways, she helps bring CUNY faculty and high school teachers together to discuss issues related to literacy development and assessment. Her books include Through Teachers' Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work and Landmark Essays on Writing Process. She is currently completing a manuscript describing her work with Austrian teachers of English under the auspices of the City College MA in Language and Literacy Program