Following nine years of teaching every grade from third to eighth, Steve is now a professor of teacher education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He teaches primarily in the graduate programs, as well as a course on young adult fiction. Steve has also done consulting work in the Chicago Public Schools, presented nationally, been published in many leading education journals, and conducted teacher workshops on literacy, literature, and social studies. Besides Caring Hearts & Critical Minds: Literature, Inquiry, and Social Responsibility, Steve has written Being Good and A Democratic Classroom, which won the James Britton Award from the Conference on English Education of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Steve lives in Chicago with his wife, Laura, his son, Max, and their dog, Sadie.
