Thank you to all of those who entered, the contest is now closed. Both winners were randomly selected by a number generator. Congratulations to the two winners! To purchase a copy of the book, please see here.
For the past year I have been sitting behind my computer most nights trying to figure out how to put into words the work we do in our classroom while writing two separate books. Trying to figure out how I can help others go deeper with their literacy instruction, even within the 45 minute English classroom. Trying to figure out how others could incorporate more global collaboration into their literacy instruction without it feeling like just one more thing to do. Trying to figure out how to make the literacy instruction we all do more meaningful, more passionate, more connected. There have been great nights and there have been early mornings. There have been days when I have felt like the biggest fraud, imposter syndrome for the win, and others where I finally felt like what I had to write might actually be meaningful to someone else.
The past year has been grueling, but oh so incredible, and now I get to celebrate the first release of one of those books; Reimagining Literacy through Global Collaboration. This how-to book is meant to help those that are new to global collaboration or have been dipping their toes in for the past few years. It is meant to inspire, meant to give you the why, and meant to help you create more meaningful literacy opportunities for your students. It is meant to give you a glimpse into our classroom as we try to make the world smaller, kinder, and the work we do more relevant all in less than 80 pages.
The official description says:
Prepare your students to adapt and thrive in the world beyond their classroom. This how-to guide offers strategies for how to establish classrooms that give students globally connected literacy experiences. Learn why students must create school projects aimed at an authentic audience beyond school walls, and plan for more purposeful opportunities for students to engage with what they learn and create. You’ll discover how to use readily available technology tools to create environments where students gain 21st century skills, collaborate with others around the globe, and realize that their work matters.
Enter to win:
So in order to celebrate the impending release of this book, I thought I would give away two copies of it. It should be out within the next first few weeks so before Christmas and you will receive you copy right from Amazon.
All you have to do to enter is to write a comment below, make sure you enter your email address in the field where it asks for it so I can contact you if you win. I will draw two randomly selected winners after Friday night, December 9th at 8 PM.
To order the book yourself:
While Amazon says it will not be released until January, Solution Tree says otherwise. So if you would like to order your own copy of the book, please go here.
What is my other book?
I am currently working on a new literacy book. The book, which I am still writing, is tentatively Passionate Readers and will be published in the summer of 2017 by Routledge. It is the tale of how I changed my literacy instruction to create passionate readers even within the 45 minute English classroom. It is the wisdom of my amazing 7th graders and what they wish all teachers of reading would know and do. It is how we can bring our own reading identity in and let it help us become better teachers of reading. It is a book filled with the practical, the inspirational, and the tools we need to hopefully help our students embrace reading as part of their identity.
If you like what you read here, consider reading my book Passionate Learners – How to Engage and Empower Your Students. Also, if you are wondering where I will be in the coming year or would like to have me speak, please see this page.
Pernille Ripp 
This sounds amazing! As a 5th grade ELA teacher, I find your blog helpful and inspiring. Good luck with your new book! ltomazin@nvcs.stier.org
I would love to have a copy of your new book! I have Passionate Learners and re-read /refer to it often. I have been teaching 15 years, 10 in kindergarten at a private school and 5 in middle school in a public city school district. This year I am the reading specialist and scouring ways to improve my struggling readers motivation, skills and desire to read.
I have a copy of your Passionate Learners book, and I read all of your blog entries. I especially love the reviews you share of picture books we can use as mentor texts. I look forward to reading your latest work, as I am completely obsessed with the Global Read Aloud!
Hi Pernille, I am a long-time follower of your blog and find the learning opportunities you offer your students incredibly inspiring. Would love to win a copy of your new book! Alice 🙂
I am so inspired by your blog that I read all the time. I am an elementary librarian who participated in the Flobal Read Aloud for the first time. It was a fantastic experience! Thank you for a chance to win a copy of your book!
Thank you for posting your blogs and reaching out to help others. I admire your risk taking, reference your work often, and agree with so many of your thoughts. The work you do is helpful in so many ways.
I just discovered your blog and thoroughly enjoyed your book Passionate Learners. I am a school librarian in New York State and am trying to get our teachers to think globally and will be urging participation in the Global Read Aloud next year. Best wishes! apaulson@lpcsd.org
Finding you, Pernille, and others through Nerdy Book Club and Twitter,
has changed my literacy beliefs and instruction tremendously. I’m thankful I’ve found my tribe who constantly improve me and my instruction by sharing what they do in their classrooms. So, thank you for continuously connecting, sharing, and improving us all globally!
Hi Pernille,
I am so inspired by your blogs as well as your Global Assignments that you have shared with me. These assignments, have been as inspiration to the many teachers that I work with. As an Instructional Coach for Innovative Learning, I have shared your book as a resource, your struggles, and many accomplishements. This has allowed me to reach so many teachers who now feel like they can reach beyond their classroom walls as well. I wish you the best of luck with the book you are still writing and can’t wait to read ‘Reimagining Literacy Through Global Collaboration’.
w- audia.marisol@ccsd59.org personal- marisolcalvo18@gmail.com
I’d love to win a copy of the new book! I, too, have Passionate Learners which I’ve shared with many people!
So excited to read your book! Looking forward to learning and growing from your wise words and ideas!
ruschc@milton.k12.wi.us
Excited to read your new book. Your message is always inspiring and uplifting.
I’m excited to read your new book. This was my first year doing GRA. We are still in contact with the other GRA classroom.m my students are excited to learn about and with a class from another country.
Pernille
I am so looking forward to reading your new books especially “Reimagining”. I have been wracking my brain for ways to make my literacy lessons more engaging and authentic while helping to develop passionate readers and writes. I am looking forward to meeting you in February when you attend our Teacher’s Convention in Edmontkn. I am disappointed that I will not be able to attend your sessions (I am presenting at the same times) but I hope that we can meet for lunch or dinner.
Hooray for authentic & meaningful literacy engagement for students!
Thanks for your posts–they are always eerily similar to my own musings/thoughts/aspirations. Can’t wait for your books to come out!!!
erickath@charter.net
I would love to win a copy!! Jeremiah@hmrq.com
I always enjoy reading your blog Pernille. From our little state of Wisconsin, you are inspiring teachers all over the world!
I look forward to your blog posts every day! You amaze me how you can do so much to help other teachers while having a family of your own, classes of your own and writing 2 books!
As a first year English teacher I would LOVE to win a copy. Thank you for all the time and thought and effort you put into improving the teaching of literature and writing. 🙂
Congratulations on your book! I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve reached out to you for inspiration and validation. Than you
I can’t wait to read your book!! alorch@warren.k12.in.us
I think Global connections are key to preparing our students to become global citizens!
Can’t wait to read your new books! Have been following your blog and you are an inspiration!
I am so excited and looking forward to your new book. I follow your blog and find your thoughts provoking and challenging. I am impressed with your ability to keep it all together, yet admit when it sometimes gets away!
This would be such a wonderful addition to our High School Library.
I’m looking forward to reading and growing with your new book!
Hello:
I follow your blog religiously and absolutely love your book recommendations! I am looking forward to the release of both of your new books. I would love to win a free copy! Colleen
Pernille, I am so excited to read more of your wise and worthy work! I look forward to reading every new blog post you write! Trina H.
Looking forward to reading your new book. You are an inspiration!
Inspiring!
I look forward to getting your new blog posts and I can’t wait to read both of your books – you are amazing and inspirational!
Looking forward to reading the book! Would love to win a copy! 😀
This is exactly what I have been waiting for!
Can’t wait for the next one too!
Would love a free copy of your book!
We would absolutely love a copy of this book!
Hello Ms. Ripp, Dec. 4, 2016
As a physician, I’ve been teaching my medical students and, yes, my patients, continually for 50+years. 2 of my children, teaching K/g and Gr.4 are the recipients of articles like yours that I’ve gathered during the years of “my research on Elementary School teaching” I expended while they were in Teachers’ College. I often quote the G&S lines in one of their operettas: “Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.” And what is implied in the practice of Medicine, fits equally well in school education. Being skeptical in learning and diagnosing is precisely what I look for in “guidelines” such as yours that have surely been a superb model for them to emulate. Thank you. David L. Malek, M.D. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
You are so inspiring. GRA was an aha moment for me this year, and I can’t wait to read about more in your book! Congratulation on all of your hard work and thank you so for sharing it with all of us. Hearts.
Love the blog, and always make time to read it! I don’t know where you get your energy to teach and write two books at the same time. Amazing! I would love a change for a copy of your book!
I just started following your blog. You are incredible bye and I’d love to read your book.
Looking forward to reading the book! Thoroughly enjoy the inspiration in your blogs!
I have recently come across your work. You are an inspiration. Looking forward to reading your new book.
I really enjoy reading your blog. I look forward to reading your new book!
Hi Pernille,
Congratulations on your new book! I can’t wait to read it. I’m moving into the library next year and am hoping to bring the outside world into the library, so I’m looking for inspiration. I’d love a copy of your book!
All the best,
Anna Davidson
Congratulations on your new book. I would love to win a copy of your book. I have just discovered you recently through another library worker and am enjoying your blog.
Thank you for publishing your wonderful work. It is a bastion and a comfort to teachers like me. We attempted the Global Read Aloud this year, and, needless to say, it was so rewarding and so difficult, all at the same time. I am hoping to get some more advice from this new book!
Hi Pernille! I am so excited to read another one of your books! You continue to be an inspiration for me as an educator and as a trailblazer with PL and global experiences with our learners. Your books have been used for PD book studies in our district. I look forward to using this one for that same purpose! Thank you for all that you are and all that you do for others each and every day!
This fits in perfectly with what I’m working on right now.
bburrack@waukeeschools.org
Your new book would be another great resource to use with my teachers at our weekly PLCs.
I always love learning from you. You are the teacher I wish I had next door to me, and reading your writing makes me feel like you sort of are next door. 🙂 Thank you for showing that are a real teacher, who isn’t always perfect, even if you are consistently amazing and inspiring.