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 …
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, …
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 …
Susie Morice spent 30 years in the public school classrooms in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Long a Gateway Writing Project and Missouri Writing Project veteran, Susie loves what the National Writing Project has done for ELA teachers. Since retiring, Susie worked with professional development …
Inspiration My only brother’s birthday is this month, so when Sarah asked me to plan a challenge, I began thinking about him and other brothers I’ve had over the years. Many of us have memorable experiences with brothers – both positive and negative. Today let’s …
Inspiration Our students have a lot to say about what’s going in their lives. We don’t always give them a forum to voice their views, in part because we don’t know what they’ll say. We may not want to hear the raw truth (and sometimes …
Inspiration Dates. Kisses. Babies. Jobs. Days of school. Concerts. Houses. Root canals. Movies. Firsts. We all have them. Remember them. Recognize the significance of them. They occur daily, and while that number dwindles the longer our existence, these first experiences are not only memorable, they …
Emily lives in San Diego, California where she teaches at San Diego Global Vision Academy. She serves as a teacher leader at her site, creating and presenting professional development for the teaching team. Emily is also a fellow and teacher consultant with the San Diego …
Today’s inspiration comes from Shaun Ingalls. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Shaun lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where he has been teaching ELA at Southeast Career Technical Academy for eighteen years. His prior teaching experience includes two years in an Alaskan Eskimo village, and …
Kaitlin and Ryan juniors in the Secondary Education English program at Oklahoma State University. Originally from Flower Mound, TX and Ann Arbor, MI, Kaitlin developed her love for writing through her experience having excellent middle school and high school English teachers and through her love …