Roxanne Henkin is a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching at The University of Texas San Antonio. Previously, she was a Professor at National-Louis University in Chicago. She also spent 18 years as a classroom teacher and has been honored with the Illinois Master Teaching Award, the National-Louis University Outstanding Faculty Award, and the University of Texas at San Antonio, College of Education and Human Development Distinguished Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty.
Roxanne is lead coeditor, along with Janie Harmon and Elizabeth Pate, of Voices From the Middle, which is published by the National Council of Teachers of English. This refereed journal, with a readership of 9000, is comprised of articles written by researchers, teacher educators, classroom teachers, and trade authors.
Roxanne is also the Director of the San Antonio Writing Project. The purpose of the San Antonio Writing Project is to promote wonderful teachers of writing by sharing their expertise with other teachers in the community. As part of the National Writing Project, teacher consultants help improve student writing across all levels.
Roxanne is also the author of Confronting Bullying: Literacy as a Tool for Character Education, and Who's Invited to Share? Using Literacy to Teach for Equity and Social Justice which are both published by Heinemann.
Previously, Roxanne was an elected member of both the Middle Level Section Steering Committee and the Elementary Section Steering Committee of The National Council of Teachers of English. Roxanne has chaired two national conferences and has been active in over 20 NCTE committees.