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Never Forget To Feed The Writer

What’s New? A decade later as I read this post I am struck by how much has changed and yet…

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I started teaching for the light bulb, but stay for NWP

Recently William Zhou asked “why teach” on Edudemic and I decided this week’s blog post would be my response to…

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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…

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What does student success look like?

Eustaquio Santimano via Compfight I have been pondering this question as I prepared my poster presentation for the Kentucky Student…

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Which Comes First For You: The Spirit or the Letter of the Law?

Yesterday I spent the morning training and testing to become a certified KYOTE (Kentucky Online Testing) writing exam scorer (I…