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✏️ Creative Writing Doesn't Exist

Humans speak in stories. If we spoke with subtitles, our speech would be "creative writing." Yet teaching to standards, schools pursue something else…

Jul 17

✏️ How to Teach with Student Writing

What if the most relevant writing instruction were reactionary? And what if your best teaching examples waited in front of you?

Jun 25 •

📓 100+ MORE Random Lesson Plan Starters (No AI)

This post contains 120 MORE lesson plan starters, ranging from basic classes to drama and discussion focuses. Made with Excel, not AI.

Jun 14 •

✏️ Teach Writing Reactively (James Moffett’s Action-Response Model)

What if students created the context for their own content? What if we waste our time by teaching mistakes students haven’t made? Check out James…

May 24 •

Writing Tricks

✏️ Off topic student essays? Try this easy intervention.

Moving from off topic to focused takes less effort than you’d think!

Dec 11, 2024 •

🖥️ How Google Forms Helped My Students Write Better (ft. Jack Watson)

...and yours can too!

Nov 30, 2024 •

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🖥️ Round Pegs, Square Holes, and Google Forms

Ever want to categorically exclude responses on Google Forms? How do you address round pegs in square holes?

Nov 23, 2024 •

🖥️ Three Big Benefits to Teaching with Student Writing

Students learn through student writing. So collect and curate it.

Sep 30, 2024 •

Humor

📰 They always had pencils?

After more than 170 days of coming to class without pencils and paper, a locker clean out reveals students had supplies all along.

May 16 •

📰 Teen Completes State Test in Record Five Minutes

Trailblazer torches previous record of fifty questions in eight minutes.

Apr 16 •

📰 Student Walks Paper to Basket, Immediately Checks Grade

Teacher demands to know when he had time to grade paper.

Apr 6 •

📰 Entire Midwest Town Drives to Madeira Beach

Entire Midwest Town Drives 1,000 Miles to Get Away

Mar 22 •

Dual Coding Theory

🧠 My Ditch That Textbook Guest Post (Ten Ways Pictures Boost Learning)

How did I end up on Ditch That Textbook?

Oct 8, 2024 •

🧠 Blue Trucks and Reading Dances: Five Fast Implications to Dual Coding Theory

What is the most effective reading comprehension strategy ever?*

Sep 16, 2024 •

🧠 What is Dual Coding Theory? (Hint: Not Computer Related.)

Hint: DCT deals with the brain, not computers.

Sep 7, 2024 •

Quilted Writing (Conference Preview)

A preview of an upcoming workshop on dual coding theory.

Jul 15, 2024 •

Recent posts

🖥️ Teach Computers Before AI: A Sketch

When toddlers use touchscreens in seconds, computer illiterate adults confuse button mashing for knowledge. Since schools never teach computers…

Jul 21 •

✏️ Creative Writing Doesn't Exist

Humans speak in stories. If we spoke with subtitles, our speech would be "creative writing." Yet teaching to standards, schools pursue something else…

Jul 17

✏️ How to Teach with Student Writing

What if the most relevant writing instruction were reactionary? And what if your best teaching examples waited in front of you?

Jun 25 •

✏️ Practice Writing Rules by Breaking Them (+ FREE Template)

This rainy day activity helps reenforce writing skills while crowdsourcing future teaching examples. Did I mention it's hilarious and kids love it?

Jun 21 •

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