Category: Teaching Tips

Teaching tips, tools, and hacks as well as descriptions of lessons

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Starting Write

What’s New? This week marked the end of our first unit for my first year writers and this is the…

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Teaching Writing in the AI Era

I have mostly ignored the AI-panic on the teacher socials because early on John Warner wrote “ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything…

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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)

What’s New? While I am taking a brief break between the Summer I and Fall semesters (which means not thinking…

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 Really New? I am definitely taking a much-needed break and am absolutely not thinking about syllabi or hyperdocs and…