Back when I first started blogging, I remember coming across an idea buried in the Common Core Appendix A. It was the most mundane-seeming of paragraphs, buried in the most mundane of documents. And yet, to me, it was revelatory. Here it is: Grammar and usage development in children and in adults rarely follows a […]
Archives for August 2023
42 Prompts to Get Students Speaking or Writing at the Start of the School Year
I’m not as much a “connection over content” guy as I am a “connection AND content” guy. In my high school classes, relationship building is most often done in the context of skill or knowledge building. There’s a whole essay I could write on why I’m that way, but that’s not the point today. The […]
Can Writing More Make Sense in Classes like Phys Ed, Band, or Computer Science?
Last time, I told you to have your students write more this school year. I argued that both your life and the lives of your students will be better if you do this. But that’s pretty big talk coming from an English/history teacher, isn’t it? What about folks who don’t teach these kinds of classes? […]
