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The Inquiring Writing Teacher
Wellsville Middle and High School English teachers began inquiry work within collegial learning circles three years ago. What they accomplished for writers that year and what they’ve continued to...
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Empty Hands
Who remembers this? I do. I remember it as well as I remember that first walk down the “magic path”, the turkeys that blessed our writing session in the woods, and the way the light skipped across...
View ArticleWriting Beyond the Desk or Screen
I’ve been reading Sunni Brown’s Doodle Revolution with great interest this week. As a teacher, I appreciate her thoughts about the influence of visualization on thinking and creativity. For instance, I...
View ArticleGrounded Theory and the Work of Our Teacher Fellows
Each year, a handful of local teachers sign on as fellows of the WNY Young Writer’s Studio. They commit sixty hours of their free time to professional enrichment, and they do it by defining their own...
View ArticleTools to Support Peer Review
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the state of New Jersey are partnering in the development of a Global Logistics curriculum for high school students. The curriculum is part of SREB’s...
View ArticleWhen Writers Shape the Workshop
Young writers thrive within predictable workshop structures, so when I taught writing in the public school setting, my lessons followed one. Workshop began with a mini-lesson, writers were provided...
View ArticleWriting Teachers: Join Us as We Work to Establish Habits of Documentation
A bit of context: The WNY Young Writer’s Studio teacher fellowship program provides opportunities for those who teach writing to engage in self-directed action research projects over the course of an...
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Should we teach young writers to plan before drafting?
Nolan returned to Studio Saturday after a summer hiatus. When Betsy and I saw him last, he was bound and determined to self-publish a manual for Minecraft users this year, and I wasn’t surprised when...
View ArticleHow do we help writers connect with the audiences that are just right for them?
Toward the end of last night’s #teachwriting Twitter chat, I had the opportunity to catch up with Andrea Hernandez, whose thinking and work I’ve long admired. We were talking about connecting writers...
View ArticleWriting about the tough stuff
In addition to keeping all of the plates spinning here at the WNY Young Writer’s Studio, I get to spend a considerable amount of time in classrooms each year, writing with teachers and students. This...
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