Vision Before Revision
A Letter to My Students About Thinking and Writing Let’s be honest. Many of you don’t like to write…at least not the kind of...
Category: Education
Thoughts on Reopening Schools in the Fall of 2020
You know how hard it is when a school community loses a kid or a teacher? I know you do. It’s devastating. I’ve lived it...
Writer’s Workshop: Giving a Voice to Trauma
I will never again complain about the college app essay in which our young hero overcomes a sporting injury to relearn the joy of “just...
Wasted Years
Over the past month of writing, one theme I’ve uncharacteristically returned to again and again is the honest examination of my difficult relationships. I wrote...
Unit Planning Flowchart
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Things to Try in 2018-2019
‘Remember, strategies are not rules; they’re paths. There are probably multiple paths to the same destination. Things I’d like to try this year: Diction Dead...
Vignettes from a Morning Hike
Beech Tree by a Stream The shape of a living thing is defined by what it clings to to survive. Living things grab ahold; they...
Beech Tree by a Stream
On Leaving Home
“I returned to my childhood home only to realize it wasn’t my home I was searching for.” -unknown I grew up in a little town...
A Letter to My Father, which I likely won’t send, on the day after Father’s Day, 2018
Dear Dad, Yesterday was Father’s Day; sorry we couldn’t make it up for the cookout. I thought writing you a letter might assuage a...