Author
James Savage
James Savage is a coauthor of The Metacognitive Student: How to Teach Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence in Every Content Area, published by Solution Tree Press in 2021. In this work, he and his coauthors present a metacognitive strategy called structured SELf-questioning, designed to help teachers embed academic, social, and emotional skill development into any content area and grade level.
According to an author biography associated with the book, Savage is a term assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he teaches writing courses. He holds an MFA in fiction from George Mason University (2005) and an MA in liberal arts from St. John’s College (2009), and is pursuing a Ph.D. in writing and rhetoric. His stated research interests include metacognition and transfer, language justice, and circulation/memory studies, which align with his work on metacognitive strategies for student learning.
