Chuck Sandy is an author of ELT books, teacher, teacher trainer, essayist and poet who has most recently coauthored the Active Skills for Communication series with Curtis Kelly. He also recently completed work on a second edition of his popular upper-intermediate level series Passages Second Edition with Jack Richards, and is coauthor (with Jack Richards and Carlos Baribsan) of the junior / senior high school level series Connect. He began his writing career by authoring several components of the Interchange series under the guidance of Jack C. Richards. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and schools around the world where he most often speaks about the joys of project work and the need for materials and practices that promote critical thinking. With his global discussion network for teachers around the world, he is out to change education for the better one school, one classroom, one student at a time. Join the movement for educational change at tinyurl.com/chucksandy