Author: Deanna Mascle

#TeachingWriting and leading #NWP site @ Morehead State (KY): Passionate about #AuthenticWriting, #DeeperLearning, #PBL, #Ungrading, and #HyperDocs.
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High Voltage Warning

What’s New? Today my students wrote in response to We Should Make a Documentary About Spades by Terrance Hayes. We…

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A Poetic Invitation (to the third power)

In One Poem to Rule Them All I wrote about the process of selecting one powerful poem designed to serve…

At first glance it would seem black horses are walking on desert land, while actually these are zebras walking in shallow water.
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Writing Reflection

What’s New? This semester I shifted my students’ weekly reflections from a private channel to the public channel – making…

a white lighthouse with a red cap on a rocky hill with a blue slightly cloudy sky in the background and a pool of water with the reflection of the lighthouse in the foreground
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One Poem to Rule Them All

What’s New? While my fall semester involved introducing many amazing poems to my students during our writing journey, my spring…

a close up view of a lit sparkler shooting sparks in the darkness
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Creating a Joyfully Authentic Community

This week is the first week of classes and I cannot wait to get back in the classroom to write…

Open sign in blue text on white boards
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Writing Into Community

The National Writing Project has a long standing practice to write into the day. Every in-person summer institute I have…