Education stakeholders who have never lead a classroom often want to know what kind of impact a teacher is having on a student this year. Those of us in the classroom often buy into the idea that we should be able to positively impact students immediately because we crave the validation that all the hours […]
Quickwriting Is For Business Writers And Teachers, Too
Let’s get real. No matter how often I tell my students that daily quickwriting will help them strengthen their writing muscles, I am convinced that some of them still don’t believe me. No matter how often I demonstrate how one can take a quickwrite from the kernel of an idea to published, award-winning prose, I […]
Spoon Vision: How Was Your Summer?
Last year, a teacher who I had the honor to work with a few years ago wrote an insightful poem about the potentially negative impact of one little question teachers love to ask during the first few days of their English classes. You can read it here: Before I’d read Mr. Baker’s poem, I had […]