Category: Teaching Tips

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

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Why video assignments?

This blog post is not about making my students create videos, but rather the videos that I create for my…

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What Can You Learn From And About Your Students?

Good teachers already know that we learn from our students every day. They teach us things about our world, technology, and…

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Challenging your pedagogy and maybe even your program

As a National Writing Project site director I think about pedagogy and education all year round, but I become truly…

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Inspiring writing, learning in six words

I want to share my love affair with six-word stories with you today. I have shared some of the ways…

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Feedback Loops & Writing Workshop

As I noted last week (Why Writing Studio?), I am devotee of writing workshop and a tremendous fan of Peter…

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Why Writing Studio?

The Writing Workshop is a time-honored tradition among writing teachers trained in National Writing Project methods as well as followers…