I love sharing hacks, strategies, and tools to make classroom life easier and more effective and sometimes that requires a deeper look than the teaching tips blog posts offer. These guides explore classroom issues in more depth and pull from both my experience and my PLN.
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- Reflective Feedback Loops
- Logbook Love
- Creating a Joyfully Authentic Community
- Slant Essays: From Game Jams to Poetry
- Telling Our Stories In 6 Words
- Conversations About Problems and Solutions
- Landing Softly
- Building A More Perfect Union: One Story At A Time
- This I Believe: Using American Creed as a mentor text starts us off write
- Passion Matters
- Triangle Power
- This I Believe: Using games to teach writing rocks
- Logbooks and #Ungrading: Creating a writing studio
- Introducing
- What If We Told the Story of Our Values
- Reflecting From Start to Finish
- How’s It Going?
- The 3 Reasons I Teach Rhetorical Analysis
- An American Creed Writing Marathon
- #HyperDocs Make Living, Learning, and Teaching Easier
- An #Ungrading Journey
- Bring The Power: Start Off Write
- Pro Teacher Tip: Build Community
- Wrapping Write
- Transliteracy Reflections
- How do you reflect on your practice?
- How To Begin Gaming Your Classroom
- Teaching Writing: An Approach Grounded in Values
- Using Snaps to Inspire Thinking and Writing
- Teaching With #HyperDocs
- Ungrading Reflections
- Hacking My Own #HyperDoc Template: Part 3 (KonMarie Lessons)
- Teaching Online: Things Just Got Real
- Hacking My Own #HyperDoc Template: Part 2 (Weekly Workflow)
- Hacking My Own #HyperDoc Template: Part 1 (Unit Workflow)
- None of This is Normal
- Crafting Our American Creeds
- Conference Grading 3.0 and the 3 Rs
- Teaching In A Time Of Pandemic: Dispatches from Metawriting
- Community Support: More than icebreakers
- A Perfect Storm: Walrus and Claims
- Conference Grading 2.0
- Surviving in the Eye of the Storm: Quick Sorts, Class Letters, and Feedback Loops
- How do you check in?
- Rethinking Peer Review: Usability Testing and Evidence
- Deeper Learning: Genius Hour, Makerspaces, and PBL
- Notable Notes: Wrapping Up the Semester Write
- Stop Blaming Student Writers: 10 lessons for teachers
- Community Under Construction
- Building Community With Me Museums
- Notable Notes: Planning ahead while wrapping up
- Notable Notes: Classroom Badges
- Notable Notes: Plan big and don’t sweat the small stuff
- Notable Notes: Community
- Notable Notes: National Writing Project #NWP
- 7 Strategies to Improve Conferences With Writers
- Notable Notes: Student Choice
- Notable Notes: Workshop
- Our 2015 journey highlights
- Notable Notes: Brain Breaks
- Notable Notes: Teaching With Infographics
- Notable Notes: Why Service Learning?
- Notable Notes: Wrapping Up
- Notable Notes: Professional Development
- Notable Notes: Writing as Thinking
- Notable Notes: A pedagogy of reflecting on questions
- Notable Notes: Escaping Toxic Relationships
- Notable Notes: Considering the Literacy Narrative
- Notable Notes: Starting The Year Off Write (Reprise)
- Notable Notes: Reflection Reprised
- Notable Notes: What does it mean to be a writer?
- Notable Notes: Connected Learning vs. Project-Based Learning
- 7 Rules for Teaching Writers
- Notable Notes: Why Blog?
- Notable Notes: Risk
- Notable notes: Reflection
- Important Conversations Inspired By Comics
- My PLN is the Terminator
- Meme All The Things
- Reflective Practitioner & Learner
- Project-Based Learning and Teaching Writing
- Why Gamification?
- Why Project-Based Learning?
- What do low-stakes writing assignments look like?
