I’m still a student. I’ve been holding onto that title ever since I graduated from college. The grip was loosening every year while working in a different industry. I wasn’t going to let go of my drive for learning. I am so thankful for the people who had influenced me before and during my journey …
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Day 6 Blog: When I was in school, there wasn’t a thing like goat yoga…
Rest. How people define that word varies wildly. Rest for a college student might mean binging the new season of Stranger Things. Rest for a stay at home mom might mean taking her time cleaning when the baby is napping. Rest for a teacher – never. Just kidding – although it does feel like that …
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Day 5 Blog: A Horse Can Count…
Talking It Out Reluctant Revisers – collaboration, reading and writing. If they are able to come up with good questions to analyze their own writing or other writings it will help them become better self-reflectors. Throughout the school year, you and your students might discover each other’s super powers. Having a go-to for specific things …
Discipline Literacy vs. Content-Area Literacy
Below (in italics) is my response to the article from a couple of years ago. Now with a couple of years of teaching experience under my belt – I’d like to respond to the article again and myself. The article “How Does Discipline Literacy Differ from Content-area Literacy” attempts to reinforce concepts read in the …
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“Go Away! Read some books!”
A book I’ve been meaning to read… Can I say all of them? It sure seems like it. I have four books in my backpack right now that are on my list (no joke, I just leaned over and counted them. Two of them are personal, one is fiction but for work (a collaboration of …
Day 4 Blog: Personalizing
The Impact of Students Taking Ownership of their Writing Takeaways: Limit feedback to a few, prioritized comments. Be social, share the work, use the comments as data to inform your rewriting. These will allow the student to formulate the questions – having a student be specific. For example, “I don’t understand.” “Okay, which part do …
Day 3 Blog: Community & Seeing Others Write
Creating a Community of Writers in the Classroom When it comes to creating a community of writers, there is no perfect formula. Write Now You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed. Mimic the Masters LOL at the fact that they have never seen a 5 paragraph essay in other pieces …
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July 1st: Chapter 1 and 3 Readings
Improving Student Writing – Challenges and Expectations The best writing is rewriting. – EB White Two Challenges What students need in order to develop and improve as writers How teachers and administrators must support and sustain effective writing instruction Learning to write requires frequent, supportive practice. I think the word supportive is the key word …
Day 2 Blog: Limiting Self-Criticism and Writing Poorly
Limit Self-Criticism in Early Drafts The author describes two schools of thoughts on writing: structured and building a craft or Anne Lamott’s suggestion of writing whatever comes to mind and as my colleague would say “throwing it all up.” The main topic of this piece is to ensure the silence of the internal critic. The …
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Day 1 Blog: Murray and Lamott
Both pieces deal with the same topic – writing is a process. One that should be taken seriously yet let yourself be vulnerable and be “your best enemy” (Maker’s Eye). Do the work. It will often not come as an epiphany or a dash to finish. It will be written, edited, practiced, revised – writing …
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