Advocacy Month Week 4: Moving from Idea to Action Plan
…in your school, and your short term and long term goals. An action plan, in other words, is the blueprint to help you create the kind of sustained changed that…
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A Reflective Glance at a Digital Writer and Her Students’ Writing for Change
…of the materials they might come across and how to search safely by using Google Safe Search, filters, and very specific search terms. Overall, Melissa was impressed at the level…
Foregrounding Potential, Not Disorder, in Neurodiverse Students
…Labeled with debilitating terms like “disordered” and “disabled,” they are presumed to be frail and pitiful. This foregrounding of deficit detracts attention from their strengths and ignores their potential and…
Process and Professionalism
…I must allow a student to succeed on her or his terms. I can’t force learning. In an authoritarian reality, this student would receive some kind of retribution for not…
Mobile Tech in the Writing Classroom
…study discussed pedagogical support in terms of training and professional development courses, pedagogical support can take many different forms, including resource books. Mobile Technologies and the Writing Classroom: Resources for…
What Does Cherry Picking Have to Do With Literary Analysis?
…that teaching them to analyze poetry by looking at all of the evidence is a great way to help them develop their critical thinking skills. Here are a few terms…
Tasking Time and Taking Time
…is often populated by top-down, standardized tasks that are far from inspiring or culture building. In the short term, this type of work is frustrating; in the long term, it…
Mentor Texts for Teaching Narrative Writing: Chapter Books
…. . . . Maus by Art Spiegelman A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his…
The End of School Movie
Out here in Central Illinois, many schools will be ending their 2017-18 terms in two weeks. There will be final exams, of course, and graduations. And, inevitably, there will be…
Getting Serious about Classroom Assessment
…over time in terms of “I used to . . . but now I. . . . ” These statements allow students to think about a body of work over…
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