Category: Teaching Tips

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

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Do You Know Your Why?

Every teacher knows their what. It is often part of our contract or presented in some other formal document before…

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The Open Online Texts I Use To Mentor and Inspire

What’s Really New? This semester I am working on selecting some new poetry to inspire my developing writers. I developed…

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Your PLN is Your (Pandemic) Multi-Purpose Survival Tool

What’s New? Sadly things are worse in the classroom. The pandemic shattered an already broken system and despite the efforts…

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We Need More Writing Marathons

What’s New? Everything and nothing! Easiest to start with what is not new – my love of writing marathons. I…

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My Workshop Process

I have written a lot of blog posts about writing workshop over the years, because no matter how my praxis…

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Checking In

Teaching and learning during a pandemic is hard. Creating and sustaining community during a pandemic is hard. I chose a…