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- Centering Humanity
- How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways…
- Starting Write
- Teaching Writing in the AI Era
- Awesome Year to Become a National Writing Project Teacher Leader
- Reflective Feedback Loops
- Logbook Love
- 2023: Craft and Community
- Zest: Adding flavor in 2024
- The Ungrading Journey Continues
- The Last Mile Problem
- High Voltage Warning
- A Poetic Invitation (to the third power)
- Writing Reflection
- One Poem to Rule Them All
- Creating a Joyfully Authentic Community
- Writing Into Community
- Slant Essays: From Game Jams to Poetry
- Telling Our Stories In 6 Words
- Conversations About Problems and Solutions
- Landing Softly
- Believe the Writer
- RPGs and Social Contracts
- 2022: A year in review
- In 2023 My #OLW Offers Perspective
- Passion-Based Writing
- Building A More Perfect Union: One Story At A Time
- Bell Ringers and Community Building
- Low-Stakes Writing Practice: Snaps and Artifacts
- Writing Slant
- This I Believe: Using American Creed as a mentor text starts us off write
- Inviting Writers
- Passion Matters
- Teaching Humans
- Why I Care About Authentic Writing
- Triangle Power
- This I Believe: Using games to teach writing rocks
- It’s A Journey Not A Process
- Logbooks and #Ungrading: Creating a writing studio
- Traditional Virtual Instruction and Community
- Introducing
- What If We Told the Story of Our Values
- Spark: My #OLW for 2022 (and beyond)
- Poetry in Comp Class?
- Considering the #OLW
- 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
- Yoga and Writing
- How We Began
- An #Ungrading Journey
- Jam Session or Writing Marathon?
- Bring The Power: Start Off Write
- Pro Teacher Tip: Build Community
- Educators have already given more than the system(s) deserve(s) and that must stop now
- I Am Broken
- Be Full of Grace
- Authentic Teaching
- We Need An Oath For Teachers of Writers
- Wrapping Write
- Transliteracy Reflections
- Rethinking the Author’s Agenda
- My Revised #Ungrading Plan
- HyperDoc Templates, Logbooks, and Agency
- Do You Know Your Why?
- How do you reflect on your practice?
- The Real Learning Loss
- Let Them Connect
- 3 Changes To My Pandemic Teaching Plan
- Resist: My #OLW for 2021
- Authentic Writing and Authentic Teaching
- Finding Your Writing Joy
- Lessons From Unsettled Fall of Pandemic Teaching
- How To Begin Gaming Your Classroom
- The Open Online Texts I Use To Mentor and Inspire
- Your PLN is Your (Endemic) Multi-Purpose Survival Tool
- We Need More Writing Marathons
- Teaching Writing: An Approach Grounded in Values
- Using Snaps to Inspire Thinking and Writing
- Defeating the Midterm Wall
- My Workshop Process
- Checking In
- Teaching With #HyperDocs
- Ungrading Reflections
- Feedback Loops
- Shared Values
- Orientation
- Hacking My Own #HyperDoc Template: Part 3 (KonMarie Lessons)
- Teaching Online: Things Just Got Real
- Adapting Your Blackboard Shell
- Hacking My Own #HyperDoc Template: Part 2 (Weekly Workflow)
- Building A HyFlex Community
- Teaching Writers To Consider Their Rhetorical Situation
- Hacking My Own #HyperDoc Template: Part 1 (Unit Workflow)
- Four-Square Writing Plan
- Why I’m HyFlexing My HyperDocs This Fall
- Writing Protest
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- Good Faith Arguments
- None of This is Normal
- Crafting Our American Creeds
- Hacking Our Game Jam
- Conference Grading 3.0 and the 3 Rs
- Why (and how) I Teach Rhetorical Analysis
- The Case For Narrative Argument
- Collaborating On A Class Reading List (and what to do with it)
- Teaching In A Time Of Pandemic: Dispatches from Metawriting
- Pitching the Grid
- Let’s Stop Calling It The Writing Process
- (Re)Orientation
- Community Support: More than icebreakers
- Conversation Tables: An interactive annotated bibliography
- What Happens When Life Forces Your Class Online?
- Gaming the Teaching of Writing
- Third Stream: Music, Teaching, and Writing
- Heal: My #OLW for 2020
- 3 Ways This I Believe Essays Support Writing Instruction
- Can We Talk About Authentic Writing?
- A Perfect Storm: Walrus and Claims
- Conference Grading 2.0
- Grades and Gaming Oh My!
- Reflections On Teaching Professional Writing
- American Literacy: Exploring the values underpinning a writing class
- Final Reflections
- Surviving in the Eye of the Storm: Quick Sorts, Class Letters, and Feedback Loops
- 3 Ways To Challenge How Students Think About Writing
- Using Student-Developed Standards To Assess Writing
- The Kentucky Writing Project Made Me A Better Teacher
- Why I Made My Composition Classes Textbook-Free Zones
- Slam Poetry & Arguments
- 3 Tips To Support Peer Review
- Is your classroom a writing ecosystem?
- Writing Our Future: American Creed
- How do you check in?
- 3 reasons I love teaching hybrid courses
- 3 reasons to teach with American Creed
- Snapping from the Start
- Heralding in a new year by exploring personal values
- 3 Rules to Kick Off Write
- Deliverables vs. Assignments
- Infographic Icebreakers
- Handcrafted Icebreakers
- Studying American Literacy
- 3 Reasons to Use StoryCorps Interviews
- The Grade Conference Transition
- Less is More
- 3 Reasons You Should Bring Games Into Your Classroom
- Games Set Stage For Serious Rhetorical Work
- The Secret Ingredient For Teaching Success
- Gaming the System
- The Writer is the Goal
- Oh, Snap: 3 Reasons To Snap In Class
- 3 Writing Lessons We Learned From Games
- Grade Conferences: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Making the Grade
- Breaking Out
- Begin Play
- First, Do No Harm
- Games and Writing
- 3 Reasons My Writing Classes Have Themes
- Exploring the American Dream
- Rethinking Peer Review: Usability Testing and Evidence
- How To Spot A Rule Shark
- 3 Ways To Draft A Literacy Narrative
- Seat Time is Not Pedagogy
- Is the American Dream Dead or Alive?
- 3 Reasons I Love HyperDocs
- Creeds and Comics
- In Defense of Rubrics
- How Do You Introduce Yourself? I Use Superhero Stories!
- What Does Writing Workshop Look Like?
- How Do You Build Class Community?
- 3 Flavors of Literacy Narrative: Picking the right one for your class
- 3 Things Every Writing Program Needs
- I Believe in Kentucky Educators and Students
- Notable Notes: Gameful design, teacher support, etc.
- Deeper Learning: Genius Hour, Makerspaces, and PBL
- Notable Notes: Teaching Tips Galore
- Exploring Identity and Vulnerability
- Notable Notes: #PBL, Equity in Education, Improving Teacher Context, Supporting Student Learning
- 3 Reasons You Should Focus On Class Community
- Notable Notes: Literacy, engagement, comics and games, and pedagogy
- Students Don’t Need “Our” Writing Rules
- Notable Notes: Literacy, Choice, and More
- Pick 1 Thing: 3 Reasons You Must Know Your Endgame
- Won’t You Celebrate With Me? Wrapping up my year write
- Empathy and Respect: Seeing Our Students As People
- What is Your Endgame? Passion or Commitment
- Don’t Reward Clock Watchers
- Notable Notes: Wrapping Up the Semester Write
- Visual literacy: Fake flyers, protest signs, and demotivational posters
- Notable Notes: #HyperDocs
- Classroom Badges Update
- Stop Blaming Student Writers: 10 lessons for teachers
- Source Sandwiches: Teaching students how to integrate evidence
- Jumping Into Arguments About Literacy and Education
- Community Under Construction
- Gamification: Second edition
- Building Community With Me Museums
- 3 Tips For Building Your PLN
- 5 Reasons Why Teachers Need Their Own PLN
- My Teaching Philosophy: Writing is magic
- What Is Your Class About?
- Notable Notes: Planning ahead while wrapping up
- Achievements and Student Choice
- Conversations in My Classroom: Truth, Listening, and Understanding
- James Paul Gee & Gamification in My Classroom
- Notable Notes: Usability Tests vs. Peer Review
- Notable Notes: Classroom Badges
- 3 Reasons to Use Paper Prototypes in the Classroom
- 3 Tips To Help Students Find #PBL Ideas
- Notable Notes: Midterm Reset
- Icebreaker Arguments Reprised
- Notable Notes: Plan big and don’t sweat the small stuff
- What is your bottom line when planning?
- 3 Traits of Rock Star Teachers
- 3 Reasons Teachers Must Be Learners Too
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC Reciprocity Remixed
- (Re)mediating the Meaning of #CLMOOC for Make Cycle #2
- Reciprocity Found in #CLMOOC Make Cycle 2
- Notable Notes: Exploring Identity with/in #CLMOOC
- Who Am I? #CLMOOC Make Cycle #1
- 3 Ways Bell Ringers Will Improve Your Class
- Notable Notes: Teachers Should Write (reprise)
- Should I stay or should I go?
- Celebrating Ourselves
- Notable Notes: Every Teacher Should Write
- Embrace the Journey, Question, Believe in You
- Notable Notes: Community
- Community, Reflection, and Passion
- 3 Ways to Beat End-of-Semester Stress
- Notable Notes: National Writing Project #NWP
- 7 Strategies to Improve Conferences With Writers
- Notable Notes: Without the humanities we will not bloom
- 3 Reasons to (Re)Write the Literacy Narrative
- Notable Notes: The impact of Kentucky’s proposed budget on education
- Don’t Fail My Students
- Why I #LoveTeaching
- Notable Notes: Student Choice
- 3 Multiple Prep Survival Tips
- Notable Notes: Workshop
- My #OneLittleWord for 2016 is Cool
- Notable Notes: #OneLittleWord
- Our 2015 journey highlights
- I wish you knew…
- Give Yourself A Break
- Notable Notes: Brain Breaks
- Alchemy
- Notable Notes: Teaching With Infographics
- Grading With Badges Revisited
- Notable Notes: Why Service Learning?
- Faking It: Using Flyers and Protest Signs to Reflect
- Notable Notes: Wrapping Up
- What is the purpose of literacy: An argument for teaching transliteracy
- Notable Notes: Professional Development
- What are you risking it for?
- 3 Reasons to Assign Infographics
- Using the Walking Dead to Teach Ethics
- Notable Notes: Writing as Thinking
- #WhyIWrite – I Write Because I Must
- Notable Notes: A pedagogy of reflecting on questions
- Building Projects Using #6Words Stories
- Notable Notes: Escaping Toxic Relationships
- Why Are We Here?
- Notable Notes: Considering the Literacy Narrative
- Breaking the Ice with an Argument
- Notable Notes: Starting The Year Off Write (Reprise)
- Starting The Year Off Write
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC = An Abundant, Open Journey
- Reflecting on #CLMOOC 2015
- Notable Notes: The importance of orientation via #CLMOOC
- Perspective and Curation via #CLMOOC
- Notable notes: Stories and Spaces – #CLMOOC
- A #CLMOOC Reflection On Streets, Space, and Silence
- Reflections on teaching writing with Renee Boss
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC Systems, Reflection, and Rebellion
- A Systems Approach To Teaching – #CLMOOC
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC Games
- Learning as an Interactive Experience via #CLMOOC
- Notable notes: Remediating the #CLMOOC Make Cycle 2
- (Re)Mediating Who We Are and What We Do – a #CLMOOC challenge
- Notable Notes: Identity (Re)Mediated via #CLMOOC
- Identity and the Unintroduction #CLMOOC style
- Notable Notes: Reflection Reprised
- I Am A Writing Evangelist
- Notable Notes: What does it mean to be a writer?
- I Believe: That’s My Superpower
- Notable Notes: Connected Learning vs. Project-Based Learning
- 7 Rules for Teaching Writers
- Notable Notes: Why Blog?
- Teaching In #6Words
- Notable Notes: Content Heresy
- Taking Time Out
- Notable Notes: Connecting #NWP
- In Praise Of Praise Poetry
- Notable Notes: (We Can Help You) Be The Thing You Teach
- #TeachingIs Feeding
- Notable notes: Creative teaching
- Detoxify student stress
- Notable notes: Writing and Tech
- 3 reasons you should build assessments as a class
- Notable Notes: Risk
- 3 reasons why you should practice metateaching
- Notable notes: (Un)Intentional?
- Teachers: We reap what we sow
- Notable notes: Reflection
- Student shaming is bad for YOU
- Notable notes: Coaching, grading, and feedback
- Stop teaching on-demand writing, make writers instead
- Notable Notes: Writing, Teaching, Technology
- Special day? We don’t need no stinking special day!
- Introducing Notable Notes
- Easing The Pain Of Grading
- Is Your Elevator Pitch Ready?
- How To Make A Writer
- Why Blog?
- Ditching Toxic Relationships
- Mistakes Were Made
- The Benefits of Service Learning
- 3 Benefits Of Teaching With (or Through) Social Media
- Simplicity: My one little word (OLW) and plan for 2015
- Keep It Simple, Stupid
- 3 Reasons You Need PBL
- My Secret Formula to Facilitate Reflection and Workshop
- Important Conversations Inspired By Comics
- Thinking About My Endgame
- Why Self-Assessment Journals?
- How Do You Refresh & Renew?
- Why I Want A Third Space
- How Do You Write Community?
- Connected = Community
- Connected Educators: Fostering Student/Teacher Agency, Voice
- Where Do You Find Joy?
- What is Your Superpower and What is Your Kryptonite?
- Twofers or Disposables? Reflecting On Classwork
- My PLN is the Terminator
- Dear Students
- Squirrel and Other Distractions or Picking a PD Topic
- Reflecting on CLMOOC
- Reflecting Back, Planning Ahead
- Hacking Our Writing
- Gamers vs. Students
- My Gaming Biography
- Meme All The Things
- Hacking The “How To”
- Midterm Musings: Morehead Online Summer Institute
- Reflective Practitioner & Learner
- On Creating a Community of Writers (How and Why)
- Project-Based Learning and Teaching Writing
- Why Gamification?
- What is a Writer?
- The Group Learning Document
- Paper Trails: My Alternative to the Annotated Bibliography
- Teachers: Put Your Oxygen Mask On First
- How Is Your Stress?
- 5 Reasons To Sign Up For Our Online NWP Summer Institute
- Where do you find refuge?
- Students Respect the Badge
- Why My Students Must Blog
- Why Project-Based Learning?
- Community Doesn’t Just Happen
- We Need More Writers: What are you going to do about it?
- Teachers: Don’t Forget The Most Important Writer Is You
- Genius vs. Skill: Can you cook writers in a microwave oven?
- Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Match
- Do you want your students to consume, curate, or create?
- Writers Are Writers Are Writers
- Book Recommendation: Writing Alone and With Others
- What Blogging Taught Me
- Alt-Ac Reflections
- Embracing Zombies: An evaluation of my first year seminar experience
- Technology: Silver Bullet or Amazing Race?
- Did you ever think it might be the assignment?
- Grading Using Google Forms
- Remediating Remediation
- Dear FYS Students
- You Can’t Teach the Writing Process: How to Make Writers by Showing Not Telling
- Writers Making Magic or Hosting a Writing Marathon
- Hope For The Future
- I am a Connected Educator – Let Me Count the Ways
- 10 Ways Literacy Narratives Will Rock Your World (or at least your writing classroom)
- Education is about the journey, not the destination
- We Don’t Deliver PD Anymore
- Radical Idea: What if we stopped teaching writing?
- Looking For More Loft and Less Remediation
- Education vs. Learning
- What career path?
- Learning as event or process or state-of-mind?
- Creating an (Online) Community of Learners
- What do low-stakes writing assignments look like?
- You can assign writing and avoid a grading avalanche
- What is college ready? How deep is the water where you swim?
- Teachers: Expose Yourself and Show Your Work
- Considering Contract Grading and the Class Blog
- The Problem of Rice Crispy Treat Writing Instruction
- Here Be Dragons — Maybe
- Why video assignments?
- Faith and Roller Coaster Rides
- What Can You Learn From And About Your Students?
- Challenging your pedagogy and maybe even your program
- Unconferencing On-/Off-Line
- Reflections on Kentucky Higher Ed: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
- Learning Communities/Networks: Harnessing Social Media to Create Social Capital
- Boxes: Possibilities and limits
- Inspiring writing, learning in six words
- Never Forget To Feed The Writer
- I started teaching for the light bulb, but stay for NWP
- Feedback Loops & Writing Workshop
- Why Writing Studio?
- What does student success look like?
- Which Comes First For You: The Spirit or the Letter of the Law?
- Students Say Multiple Connections Make Learning Better and More Fun
- Using Comic Book Themes and Archetypes to Write About Humanity
- Using 6-word-memoir Posters to Discuss Reading, Inspire Writing
- Google Docs, Blackboard blogs, and class discussion
- Using Badges to Assess a Class Community Assignment
- Why would a writing project site want to start a Writing Studio?
- Teaching/Technology: On Digital Learning Day
- PLNs, Serendipity and Learning
- Grand Re-opening
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