Tag: Community

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Posted in All Teaching Tips

One Poem to Rule Them All

What’s New? While my fall semester involved introducing many amazing poems to my students during our writing journey, my spring…

August 16, 2023
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Creating a Joyfully Authentic Community

What’s New? As we near the end of the semester our community of writers is reaping the benefits in so…

August 14, 2023
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Writing Into Community

The National Writing Project has a long standing practice to write into the day. Every in-person summer institute I have…

July 20, 2023
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Landing Softly

What’s New? Today is the first day of classes for the spring semester and my classes are prepped and ready…

April 28, 2023
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RPGs and Social Contracts

What’s New? More than a year into using social contracts to help my writers better understand the reader-writer contract and…

February 8, 2023
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2022: A year in review

Looking back at my 2022 blog posts, I gleaned two things I wish you knew plus three tips to help…

February 1, 2023