Clik here to view.
Tracing the Common Core in Michigan
Image from Flickr, some rights reserved by calmenda My colleague Robert Rozema has asked me to speak at the Michigan Council of Teachers of English annual conference later this week about where the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sharing Our Insights on NWP’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program
Yesterday, at the annual MCTE fall conference, I was fortunate enough to share a presentation session with my CRWP colleague, Andy Schoenborn, and one of our CMU English Education students, Rachel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pledge to Support #EducatorEquity
So much has been said in the past few weeks since the death of George Floyd that any additional words would be wasted. So, let me get to the point. As we see protests in America and around the world, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Review: Teachers’ Writing Groups
The second book that we are using in our summer institute is both practical and promotional. Teachers’ Writing Groups: Collaborative Inquiry and Reflection for Professional Growth (Kennesaw University...
View ArticleNotes from Kathy Yancey’s Keynote: 21st Century Literacies
Today, Kathy Yancey gave the keynote and the MCTE 2007 Fall Conference in Lansing, MI. Here are notes from the session. Yancey began by asking us to think about what literacy is and a five minute...
View ArticleReflections on Social Networking based on NCTE/NWP 2007
Today’s NCTE Inbox had an official list of blog posts about the convention, as well as Traci Gardner’s commentary about whether and how teachers should blog (for the record, she thinks that they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
My sincere thanks go out to all my colleagues in the Michigan Council of Teachers of English, the Red Cedar Writing Project and all the other professional organizations that I have been a part of in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Notes from Dan Priest’s “Rethinking Technology in the Multimodal Classroom”
Dan Priest is a pre-service teacher from Western Michigan University and presented “Rethinking Technology in the Multimodal Classroom” at MCTE‘s fall conference. He suggested that his explorations of...
View Article
