About

Dr. Roxanne Henkin is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching at The University of Texas San Antonio. She is also President of Whole Language Umbrella and on the Executive Committee of The National Council of Teachers of English. The views expressed here are her personal views and not the views of WLU, NCTE or UTSA.

Previously, she was a Professor at National-Louis University in Chicago. She also spent 18 years as a classroom teacher and has been honored with the Illinois Master Teaching Award, the National-Louis University Outstanding Faculty Award, and the 2007 & 2008 University of Texas at San Antonio, College of Education and Human Development Distinguished Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty. She was also awarded the 2009 Halle Award by The National Council of Teachers of English. Dr. Henkin received the 2012 Education Headliner by the San Antonio Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications.

Roxanne is the Director Emeritus of the San Antonio Writing Project. The purpose of the San Antonio Writing Project is to promote wonderful teachers of writing by sharing their expertise with other teachers in the community. As part of the National Writing Project, teacher consultants help improve student writing across all levels.

Roxanne was the lead coeditor, along with Janis Harmon and Elizabeth Pate, of Voices From the Middle, (2006-2011) which was published by the National Council of Teachers of English. This refereed journal, with a readership of 9000, was comprised of articles written by researchers, teacher educators, classroom teachers, and trade authors.

Roxanne is also the author of Confronting Bullying: Literacy as a Tool for Character Education, and Who's Invited to Share? Using Literacy to Teach for Equity and Social Justice which are both published by Heinemann.

Previously, Roxanne was an elected member of both the Middle Level Section Steering Committee and the Elementary Section Steering Committee of The National Council of Teachers of English. Roxanne has chaired two national conferences and has been active in over 20 NCTE committees.