ABSTRACT
This chapter draws close to a specific, limited instance of the New Literacy based on work with Ruth and the subsequent efforts to measure the impact of this program in different classrooms. It offers the work of an innovative teacher who taught down the hall from classroom in a rural school nestled in the hills above the Goulais River in northern Ontario. The New Literacy is underwritten by the Romantic project with expression. This guiding aesthetic creates an ideological link between art and education which dates back to William Wordsworth and the cultural upheaval that arose at the end of the eighteenth century. The grounds are here for a more realistic appraisal of the romance of expression, for setting it up as one approach which draws teachers who are given to a certain vision of literacy and students, of teaching and working.
