I’m going to try to connect three things: this beautiful day in New Jersey, Pope Francis, and writing as pleasure. I have just finished reading…
Wonderful CWPA 2015 conference at Boise. Thanks to all who worked to bring this off in the beautiful town of Boise. I want to come…
I had another good day of teaching. I know that the secret of teaching writing and enjoying it lies in discovering writing topics that you…
I’m just saying: what would happen if writing teachers at all levels (think Lucy Calkins) made as their primary objective having fun with writing (writing…
I’m becoming more comfortable with simply writing something down here and in an uncritical moment, clicking on publish–of course I can think later and come…
I only want to start a post–my method of getting something down. The overall theme of this blog is productive ways of helping students with…
Teacher NarrativeThis morning, I want to begin with an apology: when I wrote my last blog (before I edited it), I was feeling a little…
Writing and Teaching for FunWell, it’s a Thursday night and I’m just kind of hanging around my computer and thinking about the personal writing question–not…
I’m going to post Jerry’s post the WPA-L here and then struggle to answer his central question. As usual, Jerry poses thoughtful remarks–and the earmarks…