“It seemed without fail that if I put the kids together to write, it worked out better than I ever imagined.” One of the major challenges for teachers of writing has always been finding ways to stimulate student buy-in during the writing… Continue Reading →
If you’re going to contribute something, then you have to be able to write it. Writing is the record of human life, so what we are recording means something. Maybe in a hundred years they won’t get it, but at… Continue Reading →
“The most important writing philosophy I’ve developed over the past couple of years is that it has to be authentic writing. If it’s something students know others are reading, or if they write something that could actually make a change… Continue Reading →
“First and foremost, I want writing to be something that my students aren’t afraid of, which is very difficult at the middle school level because writing is very hard. It’s my goal to encourage strengths first before we review their… Continue Reading →
Dear Readers, Why writing? Why now? Or perhaps that second question should be why not? There seems to be a pervading belief throughout education that writing belongs solely to the English domain, that time and resources prohibit its incorporation into… Continue Reading →
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