Writing – Page 2 – Mac & Marie 🌀

Break away from traditional scaffolds with quick writes (post 1/3)

Some instructional approaches, including many traditional scaffolds, reinforce internalized and institutionalized racism and bias. Teacher-centered direct instruction can create relations that promote and rely on compliance, obedience… Read more “Break away from traditional scaffolds with quick writes (post 1/3)”

A lot of memes have been floating around telling teachers that, through this pandemic, what we are doing is enough. Because what we are doing is hard… Read more “White teachers: Whatever we are doing, it isn’t enough”

In previous years, when I’ve taught writing (after leaving the elementary TCRWP curriculum I was initially trained in), we used an approach that felt radical in its… Read more “Updating the Writers Workshop : The Share”

I have a student who is known by many as a kid who cuts class, wanders the hallways and uses the school iPad to watch movies or… Read more “Theirs are the voices I want to hear”

Whether reading, writing or even instructing students around key terminology, the Periodic Table of Elements, or the causes of World War I, we must always place in… Read more “What Do Your Tasks Value More: Your Ideas or Your Students?”

In thinking about purpose-driven writing, I wrote previously about how the planning differs and here I want to dig into that more. With purpose-driven writing, a lot… Read more “Purpose Driven Writing: the relationship between Flexibility & Agency”