door Ersun Warncke | dec 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Part of the ‘Between the Lines’ series of writer interviews.In magical realmsIt is Sunday afternoon. Outside Rosanna Leo’s home (not far from Toronto, Ontario) the leaves have turned. “Just a couple of weeks till the beginning of winter,” she remarks. “It’s long here:...
door Ersun Warncke | nov 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Cherie Dimaline (2017)Dystopian novel, YA fiction, Indigenous culture, Métis author, climate catastrophe, environment, Canadian author, queer fictionWhen I began a stint teaching middle school full time, I decided it was probably time to start reading young adult (YA)...
door Ersun Warncke | nov 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Success strategies for learnersOver the summer, I took two online courses: they were instructive in unexpected ways.Both were premium-priced ($500+), both were heavily marketed, both were on topics I was keen to learn.By the second session of Course 1, I was wandering...
door Ersun Warncke | nov 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Izzeldin Abuelaish, 2010Key wordsPalestine, Israel, Gaza, humanism, refugees, apartheid, medicine, conflict resolution, peace, Muslim, Jewish, educationLong before the recent cataclysm in the Middle East, my husband mentioned a book he’d read by a Palestinian doctor...
door Ersun Warncke | nov 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
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,...
door Ersun Warncke | nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
door Ersun Warncke | nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
door Ersun Warncke | nov 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
door Ersun Warncke | okt 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
door Ersun Warncke | okt 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Jamaica Kincaid on the colonization of the mind A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid, 1988Key words Colonialism, post-colonialism, racism, education, epistolary, second person POVThe past isn’t overLast year, my students and I read A Small Place as part of a unit on...
