Book study groups and professional learning communities, click here to save 15% when you order 15 copies of Hidden Gems -Save $50.63! In this generous and passionate book, Katherine Bomer invites us to move beyond the reductive language of rubrics and traditional assessments. She calls upon us to approach student writing with the seriousness and sensitivity-and the expectation of pleasure-we too often reserve for published literature. Hidden Gems will transform the way we read student work. -Thomas Newkirk Author of Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones You don't get true, fire-in-the-belly energy for writing because you fear getting a bad grade, but because you have something to say and your own way of saying it. -Katherine Bomer If you're like Katherine Bomer, you've grown weary of searching for what's wrong in student writing, and you want better ways to the respond to pieces whose beauty and intelligence doesn't shine on the first read. Now she shares how she learned instead to search-sometimes near the surface, sometimes deep beneath-to find, celebrate, and teach from writers' Hidden Gems.