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Ekphrasis Poetry

Welcome.VerseLove is Ethical ELA’s celebration of National Poetry Month each April—an invitation to write, read, and reflect together. New to VerseLove? Learn more: https://www.ethicalela.com/verselove Our Host: Melissa Heaton Melissa lives in Springville, Utah–a town nestled in the foothills of the Wasatch Range of the Rocky …

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Towards More Humane—and Productive—Rubrics

by Kate Sjostrom Just over ten years ago, right around the time Ethical ELA was founded, I began teaching writing methods courses to pre-service English teachers. While I strived to model an ethical approach to the teaching of writing, there was one area in which …

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The Boundary is Still Blurry

Looking Back at 2021 by Abby Kindelsperger While much continues to evolve in our world and our schools, when I look back on my Ethical ELA post from 2021, I am struck by the consistency of my teaching philosophy. I still learn from my students, …

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Speaking Up in Class: Two Strategies to Encourage Meaningful Conversations and Every Student Voice

by Barb Edler Hello, readers. I am a retired public school Language Arts/Composition teacher from Iowa. Currently, I am an online writing tutor for Kirkwood Community College. My teaching instruction has been greatly influenced by the Iowa Writing Project, and I have worked with students …

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Engaging Environmental Writers

A Follow-up to “Writing Environments” by Russell Mayo, PhD I am thrilled to be invited to write a follow-up to my “Writing Environments” post for Ethical ELA. Four years later, I am still very proud of the piece, which distills my writing, research, and teaching …

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The Walk Continues

by Bryan Ripley Crandall & Ger Duany In 2020, Ger Duany concluded his memoir, Walk Toward the Rising Sun, with “I look toward the future with happiness, hope, and excitement, because having climbed my way out of and faced all that is my past, I …

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Find Your People

by Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides & Carlin Borsheim-Black Wow, how much things have changed since we last wrote for this blog. And how much everything is still the same. When we last wrote in June 2020, we were working hot on the heels of so much …

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Considering Writing in the Constellation of One’s Life

Celebrating Shifts in Priorities  By Dixie K. Keyes When I was ten, I wrote a poetry collection with the title of “Me, Myself, and I.” My mother, for some reason, became quite excited about this and hired our next-door neighbor, an ambitious author, Mrs. Self …

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I’m Still Reading, Writing, and Teaching!

by Dave Schaafsma “I’m Still Standing”–Elton John Thanks to Sarah for inviting me to write an update to my blog post dated January 18, 2018, “You Can’t Drive 65: An English Teacher Reading in (Late) Middle Age.” I was 65, and am now 72 (do …

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Code-Switching, Code-Meshing, Translanguaging and the Vulnerable Scholar

by Sue Weinstein Almost exactly four years ago, I published the essay “To Code-Switch or Not to Code-Switch: Wrangling Linguistic Politics in the Interest of Students” on the Ethical ELA website. At the time, we were almost exactly one year into the COVID-19 shutdown. I …