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Teaching, Learning, and Writing in Northern Michigan
Podcasts for the Winter Months
The days are short and cold where I live for the next couple of months. Most days, I drive to work in the dark and drive home in the dark. I know it’s the same for people across the northern hemisphere but still, it can feel isolating. That’s why I get so excited...
Everyday Advocacy 2017
Last year I finished my 25th year as a teacher — all 25 in the same high school. It feels like a landmark and brings with it no small amount of reflection over what I have learned as a career educator. In my early years of teaching, I was not very savvy about the...
Team-Based Learning and the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique in English Classes
It's the time of year when discussion about how to effectively teach students to be successful on multiple-choice tests has increased. Let's be clear: Like just about every teacher out there, I hate test prep. I want every day in my classes to be about authentic...
Writers Write — and So Do Teachers of Writers
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on six different writing projects in my professional life — two blog posts, two chapter proposals with a colleague, and two proposals for presentations for the 2017 NCTE Annual Convention with different collaborators. The...
Authentic Research, Authentic Writing
My Chippewa River Writing Project colleague, Sharon Murchie, and I are presenting this weekend in the 4T Virtual Conference on Digital Writing (#4TDW). We wrote this piece together as a preview of our session and a brief explanation of our journey toward more...
Vulnerable Learning
Reposted from the Three Teachers Talk blog. My Writing Project colleague, Sharon Murchie, wrote about taking a risk in sharing her writing with her students on the CRWP Teachers as Writers Blog. Her post got me thinking about how I do the same in my own classroom. I...
Classroom Tools That Work: Research Tools
The apps and extensions that help power our Google Apps for Education paperless classroom This is the third in a five-part series about favorite apps and extensions for Google Chrome and Google Drive. In the first post in this series, I covered some essential tools...
Classroom Tools That Work: Helping Writers Be Better Writers
The apps and extensions that help power our Google Apps for Education paperless classroom This is the second in a five-part series about favorite apps and extensions for Google Chrome and Google Drive. In the first post in this series, I covered some essential tools...
Classroom Tools That Work
A look at apps and extensions that help power our Google Apps for Education paperless classroom This is the first in a five-part series about favorite apps and extensions for Google Chrome and Google Drive. I have been using Google Drive for four years now to...
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