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Exploring the American Dream

This semester I centered the work of my Writing I students around the American Creed documentary and the resources developed…

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Rethinking Peer Review: Usability Testing and Evidence

I recently participated in a Twitter conversation about peer review that made me realize that I haven’t blogged about my…

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How To Spot A Rule Shark

This week a student taught me a new term: the rule shark. In competitive game play (ie. YuGiOh and Magic: The Gathering),…

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3 Ways To Draft A Literacy Narrative

Recently, as I was extolling the many benefits of the literacy narrative (see  “10 Ways Literacy Narratives Will Rock Your…

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Seat Time is Not Pedagogy

Update: We are all (students, instructors, administrators, staff, and families) mired in an unprecedented, protracted collective trauma while continuing to…

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Is the American Dream Dead or Alive?

I posed that question to my students this week as we contemplate the next steps we will take in our…