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June #OpenWrite: Memory Poem

Margaret Simon lives on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana.  Margaret has been an elementary school teacher for 32 years, most recently gifted ELA.  She renewed her National Board Certification in 2019. Her first book of children’s poetry, Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the …

June #openwrite: Small Fictions

June #OpenWrite: Small Fictions

Today’s writing inspiration comes from Linda Mitchell. Linda is a family girl, Teacher Librarian and poet. She taught in western New York State apple country, outskirts of Athens, Greece and now serves as a Teacher Librarian in Northern Virginia. Linda is a prompt hound who …

#openwrite: Lists

June #OpenWrite: Lists

Today’s writing inspiration comes from Linda Mitchell. Linda is a family girl, Teacher Librarian and poet. She taught in western New York State apple country, outskirts of Athens, Greece and now serves as a Teacher Librarian in Northern Virginia. Linda is a prompt hound who …

May #OpenWrite Right Words

May #OpenWrite: “Right Words at the Right Time”

Today’s writing inspiration comes from Kimberly Johnson, Ed.D. She is a literacy coach and media specialist in a public school in rural Georgia. She enjoys writing as a guest blogger for www.writerswhocare.com and counts down the days between monthly 5-Day Writing Challenges.  She is the …

May #open write "The way I felt"

May #OpenWrite: “The Way I Felt”

Today’s writing inspiration comes from Kimberly Johnson, Ed.D. She is a literacy coach and media specialist in a public school in rural Georgia. She enjoys writing as a guest blogger for www.writerswhocare.com and counts down the days between monthly 5-Day Writing Challenges.  She is the …

May 2020 #open write Unslobbering Love Poem

May #OpenWrite: The Duplex Form

Today’s writing inspiration comes from Kimberly Johnson, Ed.D. She is a literacy coach and media specialist in a public school in rural Georgia. She enjoys writing as a guest blogger for www.writerswhocare.com and counts down the days between monthly 5-Day Writing Challenges.  She is the …

May 2020 #openwrite

May #OpenWrite: “I remember”

Today’s writing inspiration comes from Kimberly Johnson, Ed.D. She is a literacy coach and media specialist in a public school in rural Georgia. She enjoys writing as a guest blogger for www.writerswhocare.com and counts down the days between monthly 5-Day Writing Challenges.  She is the …

Ethical ELA Teacher Ed in zoom

Last Quarantine Class: Writing, Grief, and Tiny Miracles

Well, friends, last night was the final meeting of classes for me at OSU, wrapping up my first year of teaching English ed full time. We, our writing methods course, ended with an open mic. Students (preservice teachers) read pieces from their journals — writing …

Day 30 of 30: Congratulations

Congratulations! We have shared this virtual space for 30 days — 30 days of words, phrases, images, and lines borrowed from lives lived and imagined. We have drawn from the mentorship of our daily hosts and the poets and poetry that inspired them: Glenda Funk, …

#verselove Ethical ELA

Day 29 of 30: #verselove with Jessica & Kole

Jessica and Kole are preservice teachers at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma majoring in secondary education with a minor in English.  Jessica hopes to one day become a high school English teacher in a rural setting. She just began a job at the Child …