University of Massachusetts Amherst

Contact Information:
260 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-6568
f: 413-545-3880
penniman@english.umass.edu

Adjunct Assistant Professor and former Director of The Western Massachusetts Writing Project

Educated at University of Massachusetts, B.A., 1971; M.A. 1974; Ed.D. 1985. Teacher of English, Amherst Regional High School, 1971 to 2007. Massachusetts Teacher of the Year, 1999.  Author of Building the English Classroom: Foundations, Support, Success (NCTE, 1999)