Category: Teaching Tips

Inauthentic disposable writing assignments do not make writers and do not help students learn how to write. Authentic writing breaks that shameful cycle and shows students that writing matters and that writers wield power.

I have always put a lot of thought into how I begin each semester – especially in the fall when…

My heart sank when I read the email from my department chair that one of my online classes for the…

One of my mentor teachers had a line that echoes in my head many years after we lost her: be…

What’s New? This week I worked with my first year writers to set goals for their current writing projects (This…

What’s New? My love of hyperdocs continues to be steadfast and I don’t expect to ever abandon them. Hyperdocs are…