Tag: Rants

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First, Do No Harm

What’s New? My writing classes have always focused more on writing than direct instruction, but ever since our first pandemic…

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Stop Blaming Student Writers: 10 lessons for teachers

What’s New? Sadly nothing. If anything the state of writing instruction is even worse because the pandemic broke our already…

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Should I stay or should I go?

I recently shared a collaborative praise poem I wrote with my students at the end of the semester. I loved…

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Notable Notes: Without the humanities we will not bloom

This Notable Notes post is devoted to the idea of higher education, specifically its role in educating our future workers…

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Notable Notes: The impact of Kentucky’s proposed budget on education

Kentucky is headed in a very dangerous direction. I want to use this collection of Notable Notes to share important…

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Don’t Fail My Students

I am worried about my students. I teach writing at Morehead State University which means a large percentage of my…