📓 Twelve Uses for Student Writing Notebooks (+ Example Prompts)

How do your students write for 180 days? These categories might help.

Apr 18

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✏️ Beyond the Essay: The Multi-Purpose Script (+ TEMPLATES)

How can students write as deep as possible with as few words as possible? Why not try invented dialogue?

Apr 11 • Adam

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March 2026

💬 My ICTE Talk 2026

Resources from “Teaching Media Literacy through Research”

Mar 28 • Adam

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✏️ Celebrating the Small Successes (Textbook Rants)

Why teaching writing is psychological and where writing programs fail.

Mar 27 • Adam

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📰 Student Maps out NFL Career

"Why would everyone else choose such loser jobs?”

Mar 20 • Adam

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💬 My Teach Indy Talk 2026

Resources from “13 1/2 Evidence-Based Reading Comprehension Strategies”

Mar 7 • Adam

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📰 Student Optimistic Five-Point Quiz Will Boost Grade

“Yeah, I’ve got a ten or twenty percent, but this should help. Quizzes mean more.”

Mar 4 • Adam

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February 2026

📰 Local Student Claims She Will Do Work “At Home”

Look, she'll do her work "at home" so get off her back, okay?

Feb 28 • Adam

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🚌 50 Metaphorical Prompts about High School

How is high school a waiting room? How is the cafeteria a jungle or the hallway a river?

Feb 21 • Adam

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📚 10 Fantastic Books for Teaching Writing

What books made my teaching style? Peer through this short bibliography.

Feb 14 • Adam

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✏️ How to Write Useful Sub Notes (+ TEMPLATE)

If your sub cannot pick up your paper and act, then you need to simplify.

Feb 1 • Adam

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January 2026

✏️ Teaching Writing through Transformation (James Moffett on Invention)

What if we start writing all wrong? What does James Moffett say about invention in writing?

Jan 17 • Adam

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