Angela Peery has been a Teacher Specialist with the South Carolina Department of Education and worked with a chronically low-performing middle school as part of a turnaround team. Angela was also previously a consultant for the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, co-teaching and designing lessons with teachers in high-poverty, at-risk schools in Seattle and Indianapolis. She lives in Beaufort, South Carolina. Polly Patrick has been involved in the Instructional Leadership Team and the Grading and Reporting Committee that have been at the core of creating a learning culture at Minnetonka High School. Polly has traveled to multiple districts and national conferences promoting the value of creating grading systems that give an accurate reflection of what students know and can do. She lives in Salem, Virginia. Deb Moore is a clinical faculty member teaching elementary mathematics courses to preservice teachers and serves as a coach to a small cohort of her students with a mathematics emphasis as they complete their field work and student teaching in urban elementary classrooms throughout Baltimore and Washington D.C.
[Ask, Don't Tell makes] ... exceedingly plain how questioning can be a powerful teaching tool. I was very pleased to see that every major subject-matter field was included as a place where questioning can make a tremendous difference in the depth of pupil understanding and transfer of thought from one context to ever new contexts, which is (or should be) the goal of excellence in teaching. Moreover, this shift in methodology of teaching is given relevance by vignettes drawn from real life experiences of practicing educators. I wish Socrates were alive to write an endorsement for this book, because he would give it lavish praise or, more likely, the question of why questions are so essential and effective in teaching. Dr. Donald R. Draayer A National Superintendent of the Year Retired School Superintendent, Minnetonka School District"
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