Author Profile: Richard Beach

Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at the University of Minnesota. His recent research focuses fostering languaging in schools and teaching about climate change and media production. He is co-author/editor of 32 books, including: Teaching Language as Action in the ELA Classsroom (http://languaging.pbworks.com), Drawing on Students’ Worlds in the ELA Classroom (http://adolescentsworlds.pbworks.com), Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference (http://climatechangeela.pbworks.com), and Youth Media Creation on the Climate Change Crisis: Hear Our Voices  (http://youthclimatecrisismedia.pbworks.com) (in press). He recently received the 2022 John Gumperz Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship Award from the Language and Social Processes SIG, AERA.