door Ersun Warncke | apr 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
The inevitable doesn’t have to beIn a fleeting discussion, a fellow animal-lover said it was a shame that domestic animals are routinely sterilized. ‘It’s not natural,’ he said.My first reaction was, okay, how about you take on the care of the countless haggard...
door Ersun Warncke | apr 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why teachers should embrace errors — especially their own!“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.“Samuel Beckett’s words (from the novella Worstward Ho) are an arch rallying cry for MFA types.They have never set well with me....
door Ersun Warncke | apr 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Write better without touching a keyboard!I’ve started to play around with video and wanted to share the first two installments of Write to Success’s Hands-free Writing Hacks series.Most of what makes for good writing happens away from a desk. Immersing oneself in the...
door Ersun Warncke | mrt 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Unpacking a potential classroom saboteur Over the past few years I’ve read a lot neurodiversity, learning differences, etc., which introduced me to pathological demand avoidance (the less fun PDA).Descriptions of associated traits rang a bell. I’ve certainly had...
door Ersun Warncke | mrt 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writing in an uncertain worldLast week, one of the students I worked with as an essay application coach was admitted to their first-choice school, Choate Rosemary Hall. Choate is highly selective even among highly selective secondary schools, taking between 11-16% of...
door Ersun Warncke | mrt 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Read your way to better writingOne thing I cannot emphasize enough, as a writing teacher, is the importance of reading, reading, reading. Reading increases knowledge, builds emotional intelligence, creates connections, percolates language in the brain. Anyone who...
door Ersun Warncke | mrt 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tips from author Katherine CottleWelcome to another dispatch from ‘Between the Lines’ – interviews with teachers, writers and writing teachers on specific aspects of their craft.In this week’s interview, author and Goucher College writing professor Katherine Cottle...
door Ersun Warncke | feb 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Preparing students to conquer college writing Essay AcceleratorWrite to Success is hard at work on the Essay Accelerator — a course that prepares learners to conquer college and beyond. Full disclosure: building an online course, website, etc. is a technological...
door Ersun Warncke | feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Can task repetition improve writing results? Last week, I completed a course that seriously challenged my learning skills. It involved memorizing a vast number of facts and answering questions in a specific format. This might be ‘meat and drink’ (as my instructor put...
door Ersun Warncke | feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why resources often trump resolve This is a piece I wrote last spring, but wanted to share as the issues it raises have not gone anywhere. Education demands equitable access to resources, or it will end before it starts. On Tuesday, around half-past-nine in the...
