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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Just Like Students
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The first morning back following summer break, the floors still slippery with wax, the smell of cleaning agent clinging to everything, is th...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
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Sir Ken Robinson argues that we are currently a part of an educational system that perpetuates the stigmatization of mistakes. With the pro...
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The Art of Revision
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Revision is perhaps the most difficult part of writing. Not long ago, I head author James McBride talk about crafting his memoir The Color ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Rethinking Poetry
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I love when lines of poetry subtly slide into a conversation. Poetry takes hold of us, lurks somewhere in the recesses of memory until the ...
Monday, July 30, 2007
Sometimes a pebble is just a pebble
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”Don’t write about the pebbles. Write about a pebble.” Nancie Atwell, Lessons That Change Writers Out of breath, I stumbled into room 326...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
A Village of 100
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If you have a bed to sleep in, a refrigerator for food, a closet for clothing, if you have a roof over your head each night, you are wealthi...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The Power of Poetry
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Next week I start my Teacher as Poet course through the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project (PAWLP), and it has sent me rifling thr...
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