One of the reasons I named my blog “Metawriting” is because I believe being a reflective practitioner (nod to the National Writing Project) is an essential part of my professional development continuum. The posts in this category include my ruminations about teaching, education, learning, and life.
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All posts in this category:
- Awesome Year to Become a National Writing Project Teacher Leader
- 2023: Craft and Community
- Zest: Adding flavor in 2024
- The Ungrading Journey Continues
- The Last Mile Problem
- Writing Reflection
- Believe the Writer
- 2022: A year in review
- In 2023 My #OLW Offers Perspective
- Passion-Based Writing
- Low-Stakes Writing Practice: Snaps and Artifacts
- Teaching Humans
- It’s A Journey Not A Process
- Traditional Virtual Instruction and Community
- Spark: My #OLW for 2022 (and beyond)
- Considering the #OLW
- Yoga and Writing
- Educators have already given more than the system(s) deserve(s) and that must stop now
- I Am Broken
- Be Full of Grace
- We Need An Oath For Teachers of Writers
- My Revised #Ungrading Plan
- The Real Learning Loss
- Resist: My #OLW for 2021
- Authentic Writing and Authentic Teaching
- Finding Your Writing Joy
- Lessons From Unsettled Fall of Pandemic Teaching
- Defeating the Midterm Wall
- Shared Values
- Writing Protest
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- Good Faith Arguments
- Let’s Stop Calling It The Writing Process
- Third Stream: Music, Teaching, and Writing
- Heal: My #OLW for 2020
- Can We Talk About Authentic Writing?
- Grades and Gaming Oh My!
- Reflections On Teaching Professional Writing
- American Literacy: Exploring the values underpinning a writing class
- The Kentucky Writing Project Made Me A Better Teacher
- Is your classroom a writing ecosystem?
- Deliverables vs. Assignments
- Grade Conferences: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Breaking Out
- First, Do No Harm
- 3 Reasons My Writing Classes Have Themes
- How To Spot A Rule Shark
- Is the American Dream Dead or Alive?
- 3 Things Every Writing Program Needs
- I Believe in Kentucky Educators and Students
- Notable Notes: Gameful design, teacher support, etc.
- Notable Notes: Literacy, Choice, and More
- 3 Tips For Building Your PLN
- 5 Reasons Why Teachers Need Their Own PLN
- My Teaching Philosophy: Writing is magic
- What Is Your Class About?
- Conversations in My Classroom: Truth, Listening, and Understanding
- James Paul Gee & Gamification in My Classroom
- Notable Notes: Midterm Reset
- What is your bottom line when planning?
- 3 Traits of Rock Star Teachers
- 3 Reasons Teachers Must Be Learners Too
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC Reciprocity Remixed
- Notable Notes: Teachers Should Write (reprise)
- Should I stay or should I go?
- Notable Notes: Every Teacher Should Write
- Embrace the Journey, Question, Believe in You
- Community, Reflection, and Passion
- Notable Notes: Without the humanities we will not bloom
- Notable Notes: The impact of Kentucky’s proposed budget on education
- Don’t Fail My Students
- Why I #LoveTeaching
- My #OneLittleWord for 2016 is Cool
- I wish you knew…
- Give Yourself A Break
- Alchemy
- What is the purpose of literacy: An argument for teaching transliteracy
- Notable Notes: Professional Development
- What are you risking it for?
- #WhyIWrite – I Write Because I Must
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC = An Abundant, Open Journey
- Reflecting on #CLMOOC 2015
- Notable Notes: The importance of orientation via #CLMOOC
- Perspective and Curation via #CLMOOC
- Notable notes: Stories and Spaces – #CLMOOC
- A #CLMOOC Reflection On Streets, Space, and Silence
- Reflections on teaching writing with Renee Boss
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC Systems, Reflection, and Rebellion
- A Systems Approach To Teaching – #CLMOOC
- Learning as an Interactive Experience via #CLMOOC
- (Re)Mediating Who We Are and What We Do – a #CLMOOC challenge
- Notable Notes: Identity (Re)Mediated via #CLMOOC
- Notable Notes: Reflection Reprised
- I Am A Writing Evangelist
- Notable Notes: What does it mean to be a writer?
- Notable Notes: Content Heresy
- Taking Time Out
- Notable Notes: Connecting #NWP
- Notable Notes: (We Can Help You) Be The Thing You Teach
- #TeachingIs Feeding
- Notable notes: Creative teaching
- Notable notes: (Un)Intentional?
- Teachers: We reap what we sow
- Student shaming is bad for YOU
- Notable notes: Coaching, grading, and feedback
- Stop teaching on-demand writing, make writers instead
- Notable Notes: Writing, Teaching, Technology
- Special day? We don’t need no stinking special day!
- Introducing Notable Notes
- Is Your Elevator Pitch Ready?
- How To Make A Writer
- Why Blog?
- Ditching Toxic Relationships
- Mistakes Were Made
- Simplicity: My one little word (OLW) and plan for 2015
- Keep It Simple, Stupid
- Thinking About My Endgame
- How Do You Refresh & Renew?
- Why I Want A Third Space
- How Do You Write Community?
- Connected = Community
- Connected Educators: Fostering Student/Teacher Agency, Voice
- Where Do You Find Joy?
- Twofers or Disposables? Reflecting On Classwork
- Squirrel and Other Distractions or Picking a PD Topic
- Reflecting on CLMOOC
- Reflecting Back, Planning Ahead
- Hacking Our Writing
- Gamers vs. Students
- My Gaming Biography
- Midterm Musings: Morehead Online Summer Institute
- What is a Writer?
- Teachers: Put Your Oxygen Mask On First
- How Is Your Stress?
- 5 Reasons To Sign Up For Our Online NWP Summer Institute
- Where do you find refuge?
- Genius vs. Skill: Can you cook writers in a microwave oven?
- Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Match
- Do you want your students to consume, curate, or create?
- Writers Are Writers Are Writers
- Book Recommendation: Writing Alone and With Others
- What Blogging Taught Me
- Alt-Ac Reflections
- Embracing Zombies: An evaluation of my first year seminar experience
- Remediating Remediation
- Dear FYS Students
- Hope For The Future
- I am a Connected Educator – Let Me Count the Ways
- We Don’t Deliver PD Anymore
- Looking For More Loft and Less Remediation
- Education vs. Learning
- What career path?
- Learning as event or process or state-of-mind?
- What is college ready? How deep is the water where you swim?
- The Problem of Rice Crispy Treat Writing Instruction
- Here Be Dragons — Maybe
- Faith and Roller Coaster Rides
- Unconferencing On-/Off-Line
- Reflections on Kentucky Higher Ed: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
- Learning Communities/Networks: Harnessing Social Media to Create Social Capital
- Boxes: Possibilities and limits
- Never Forget To Feed The Writer
- I started teaching for the light bulb, but stay for NWP
- What does student success look like?
- Why would a writing project site want to start a Writing Studio?
- Grand Re-opening
