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Today Years Old

Welcome to Day 5 of the August Open Write. A very special thank you to our August educators who have hosted this month’s open write: Gayle Sands, Margaret Simon, Anne Burg, and Scott McCloskey. You have taken such good care of our hearts and minds. …

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Poems of Perspective

Welcome to Day 4 of the August Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read prompt below and then, when …

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Transforming Art into Words

Welcome to Day 3 of the August Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …

This Photo Wants to be a Poem

Welcome to Day 2 of the August Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …

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Wordplay for August

Welcome to Day 1 of the August Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …

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Informational Writers Workshop

Informational Writers Workshop This writers workshop series focuses on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See other posts within this series such as personal narrative, short story, poetry, and more here. This post is about crafting informational texts. Informational texts can live in …

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Poetry Writers Workshop

Poetry Writers Workshop This writers workshop series includes tutorials on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See the entire series here: personal narrative, short story, poetry, informational, personal argument, research-based argument, interviewing, descriptive paragraph, and comic. This post is about writing poetry. A …

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Short Story Writers Workshop

Short Story Writers Workshop This writers workshop series focuses on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See all the tutorials here: personal narrative, poetry, informational, personal arguments, research-based arguments, interviews, comic, and descriptive paragraph. This post is about short story. A short story …

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Personal Narrative Writers Workshop

Personal Narrative Writers Workshop This is one of several posts on teaching writers a particular mode and genre. In this post, I focus on the personal narrative, specifically in prose. A personal narrative is a story, but it can take the form of a photo …

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Understanding Flow of and Flow in Tenure-Track Being, Part 3 of 3

This teacher education blog series about time and calendars is for teachers, graduate students and higher ed faculty balancing expectations of teaching-research-service with expectations of wellness-family-adventure. I offer my efforts to find a sustainable way to navigate decisions that are, in my view, deeply connected …