Category: Pillar

The ideas that serve as key supports for my philosophy of teaching

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3 Ways To Challenge How Students Think About Writing

Maybe you are blessed to work somewhere that students’ writing lives are fully supported, but most of my students come…

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3 Tips To Support Peer Review

Students in my writing classes spend a lot of time providing feedback to each other, because I am a firm…

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Is your classroom a writing ecosystem?

A the cornerstone of my writing pedagogy is the writing workshop and in order for that writing workshop to work…

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3 reasons I love teaching hybrid courses

Much of my teaching career at Morehead State has included teaching hybrid courses. In hybrid, also known as blended, courses…

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Deliverables vs. Assignments

I first began to use the word deliverables rather than assignments with my professional writing students, but over time I…

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Handcrafted Icebreakers

What’s New? This semester I broke the ice for my new writing community by focusing on writing rituals and poetry?…