Leah Mermelstein: Read-Write-Connect, Inc.

Leah Mermelstein taught both in Massachusetts and in New York City before becoming a staff developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. While at the project Leah mentored teachers in many schools, providing the demonstration teaching, coaching and study groups necessary to help those teachers establish joyful and rigorous Reading and Writing Workshops.

Now, Leah is an internationally recognized literacy consultant who specializes in K-5 reading and writing. She works with students, teachers, principals and other district leaders helping them to design thoughtful plans for the teaching of reading and writing. She is the coauthor of Launching the Writing Workshop (with Lucy Calkins) (Heinemann). She is also the author of Reading/​Writing Connections in the K-2 Classroom: Find the Clarity and Then Blur the Lines (Allyn & Bacon) as well as Don't Forget to Share: The Crucial Last Step in the Writing Workshop.(Heinemann, Feb, 2007) This book focuses on how to make share sessions in the Writing Workshop more instructional. She is now hard at work on a book about the components of a balanced writing curriculum.