Reading Aloud to Older Students

We’re never too old for stories…Reading aloud is like breast feeding: everyone agrees it is vital for the very young, but past a certain age it gets side-eye.There is ample research on how reading aloud supports early literacy (Wiseman, 2010; Lennox, 2013,...

Book Review: Connections Over Compliance

Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline, by Lori Desautels, Ph.D. (2020)Key wordsEducation, co-regulation, trauma-informed, relational discipline, student-centered, classroom management, neuroscience, teachingMy intention was to skim Connections Over Compliance again...

Success Stories with Anthony Lince

Scholar and educator Anthony Lince shares his writing journeyAnthony Lince, per his online bio, is ‘a Latinx educator and scholar who teaches first-year writing courses at UC San Diego and local community colleges.’From ‘terrified’ writer to writing teacherIn...

Nancy Drew – The Secret at Shadow Ranch

Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt), 1931Key wordsYoung readers, adventure, feminism, role models, adventure stories, series, women writers, readingThe book that changed meWhen interviewing fellow writers and writing teachers (check out my Between the Lines series) I always...

On AI: Artificial Ignorance

Or, Why Writing STILL Matters Artificial intelligence promises to augment our collective processing capacity. But on an individual level it is a neurotoxin that cultivates artificial ignorance.Photo by Santi Vedrí on UnsplashUnused muscles weaken, then atrophy. Plunk...