Cris Tovani shares ideas for identifying and supporting disengaged students through long-term planning and building relationships. Sam Bennett paints a picture of the circles of engagement (emotional, behavioral, and cognitive) and explains why a workshop structure enables students to connect with their teachers, other students, curriculum and themselves.
Cris Tovani's books:

1. I Read It, But I Don’t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers (1999)
2. Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 (2003)
3. So, What Do They Really Know? : Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning (2010)
4. No More Telling as Teaching: Less Lecture, More Engaged Learning (2017)
5. Why Do I Have to Read This?: Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students (2020)
6. and a contributing author to Comprehension Going Forward (2011)

Sam Bennett's Books:

1. That Workshop Book: New Systems and Structures for Classrooms That Read, Write and Think (2007)
2. and a contributing author to Comprehension Going Forward (2011)The Right To Literacy in Secondary Schools: Creating a Culture of Thinking (2008), & Imagine It Better: Visions of What School Might Be (2014)

Sam & Cris also have a Heinemann On-Demand Professional Development Video Series together called: Adolescent Reading RX: What to Try When Teen Readers Can't or Won’t (2013)