I'm slowly making my way through the keynote addresses from last week's Writing Institute. Today I bring to you my notes and some highlights from Roy Peter Clark's speech, "The Power of the Parts: How Writers Learn and How Teachers Teach." Clark wrote a book I've been reading for awhile now, Writing Tools: 50 Essential… Continue reading The Power of the Parts
Do Your Best
So our internet is down ... my husband's flights were canceled yesterday ... he finally arrived home around midnight after being in South America for the past two weeks ... and today he went to the doctor only to find out that the spider bite from the Amazon is nothing to worry about, but he… Continue reading Do Your Best
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Why Writing Matters More than Ever
James Howe's Keynote Address, "Only Connect: Why Writing Matters More than Ever in an Age When We're Always Connected but Rarely Connect" resonated with me on many levels. On an educator level, I constantly shake my head when I hear of children being babysat by video games instead of people. Additionally, I've sat at many… Continue reading Why Writing Matters More than Ever
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Let Freedom Ring
Here in the States we are coming out of a holiday weekend, so I thought it could inspire today's post. As we've celebrated Independence Day, I've been thinking about how with freedom comes responsibility. This transfers to writing workshop. If you follow along regularly, then you know choice has been on my mind a lot lately.… Continue reading Let Freedom Ring
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Mardi Gras Beads, a Treasure Chest, and Notebooks
One of the best things about attending summer institutes hosted by the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is meeting people from all over the country and the world. This year, I landed up in a class with Kelly, who participated in the 2009 Slice of Life Story Challenge. We spent the week working together… Continue reading Mardi Gras Beads, a Treasure Chest, and Notebooks
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Guest Blogger: Alan Wright: First We Need to Rehearse
Alan currently works as an education consultant, and is based in Victoria, Australia. He works across public and independent schools in both primary and secondary school settings. From 2001 until 2006 his consultancy work was based in New York. Alan is a co-director of ALVIC Educational Consultancy with his wife, and fellow consultant, Vicki Froomes.… Continue reading Guest Blogger: Alan Wright: First We Need to Rehearse
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What about the kid who ______?
Katherine Bomer never disappoints when she delivers a keynote address or a workshop. I cannot count how many times I've been fortunate enough to sit in the audience and soak up the wonderful things she has to say about working with children, honoring them for who they are, and nurturing them as writers. The keynote… Continue reading What about the kid who ______?
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Choice in Deadlines
Some were asking me to "say more" about giving students choice regarding deadlines. Here are a couple ideas in order to empower students to have more choice in finding what works best for them as writers. First and foremost, I have to say I believe in deadlines. Writers have deadlines. If Stacey and I didn't… Continue reading Choice in Deadlines
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Bringing Our Strange Selves to the Page
Day One of the TCRWP Writing Institute. I listened to Lucy Calkins's Keynote Address entitled "Great Expectations." I attended my first morning session, "We Do Not Teach Alone: Using Reading/Writing Connections to Lift the Level of Non Fiction Writing," with Cory Gillette. I wrote a lot in James Howe's afternoon session "Writing from the Heart." … Continue reading Bringing Our Strange Selves to the Page
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Thinking About Choice
One of the sessions I attended at the conference last week was June Yazel's "The Power of Choice." It has been rattling around in my mind since. June believes choice is the defining factor of writing workshop. I believe this too. Sometimes it seems as though we strip choice away from writing workshop. I'll be… Continue reading Thinking About Choice
