THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSEMBLY FOR EXPANDED PERSPECTIVES ON LEARNING, JAEPL, provides a forum to encourage research, theory, and classroom practices involving expanded concepts of language. It contributes to a sense of community in which scholars and educators from pre-school through the university exchange points of view and cutting-edge approaches to teaching and learning. JAEPL is especially interested in helping those teachers who experiment with new strategies for learning to share their practices and confirm their validity through publication in professional journals. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 17: AEPL Keynote: "Immersion, Transformation, and the Literature Class" by Cristina V. Bruns "My Kanawha" by Anne DiPardo "Who Cares? Exploring Student Perspectives on Care Ethics" by Kelly A. Concannon Mannise "Playing the Believing Game with Dr. Seuss and Reluctant Learners in Science" by Kym Buchanan and Perry Cook "Being the Unbook, Being the Change: The Transformative Power of Open Sources" by Elizabeth Woodworth "Suffering and Teaching Writing" by W. Keith Duffy "Perfect" by Helen Collins Sitler "'We Were the Teachers, Not the Observers': Transforming Teacher Preparation" by Nikki Holland, Iris Shepard, Christian Z. Goering, and David A. Jolliffe "Re-Seeing Story through Portal Writing" by S. Rebecca Leigh "'Poetry is Not a Luxury': Why We Should Include Poetry in the Writing Classroom" by Nicole Warwick "Out of the Box: Notes from Teaching at the Ends of the Earth" by Colette Morrow