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Wrapping Up the School Year
A few weeks ago, a Writing Project colleague engaged a group of us in a conversation about how teachers might end the school year. This is typically an easy question. Most districts have traditions and rituals in place for ending the year, along with district assessments to measure academic growth. None of these typical ways…
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Find Your Tribe
Remember assistant principal Richard Vernon from The Breakfast Club? Who could forget his hostile approach to supervising adolescents during a Saturday detention! We would like to think his character is more caricature than realistic, but versions of Richard Vernon seem to haunt most schools, and of course, as a new teacher, you will want to…
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The Writing Project’s Summer Institute
My long-time mentor, Maridella Carter, invited me to participate in the Greater Kansas City Writing Project’s Summer Institute over and over. She knew I would love the experience, but life kept interfering. Finally, one summer, I could commit. She was right; not only did I love the experience, but it was the BEST graduate class/professional…