As a writing teacher and a college writing center director, this project by Dave Eggers really caught my eye. He set up a storefront in his neighborhood in SF to help kids with writing. I saw Eggers last March at a conference in SF. He’s a smart and motivated guy (and a helluva good writer). [...]
a community writing center
February 19th, 2010
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Tags: community building · teaching · writing · writing centers
the hard bigotry of low expectations
November 20th, 2009
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It’s getting harder and harder for me to keep fighting the good fight–to expect anything other than mediocrity from me, from my students, and from the apathetic masses barely shuffling through life. The other day, I received this all-caps e-mail from a student’s mother. I changed the case because the all-caps hurt my eyes.
Dear Sir:
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Tags: parenting · student work · teaching
homeschooling rocks!
September 6th, 2009
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The other day I started thinking about the kids in school and how they are there all day long and I started wondering how do they spend their time? This led to some conversations and someone that I was talking with told me how at one school kids start at 7:30 in the morning and [...]
