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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
This was so much fun. Thank you, Lara Klopp and Ted Schubel for the opportunity. Click the link to hear our show about career changes and and writing. Fantastic!
Writing
Will Mackintosh: Linking Thinking, Speaking, and Writing
The Write Stuff - Virginia
November 2014
One of my goals in creating The Write Stuff – Virginia was to gain insight from teachers of all content areas and grade levels about the function and importance of writing in their classrooms. With this as a given, I was especially interested in interviewing Will Mackintosh of the University of Mary Washington. Will is an associate professor in the Department of History and American Studies with a full teaching schedule keeping him busy each semester. He offers thoughtful insight into university-level expectations for writing, including his own philosophies about the purpose of writing within his own content area.
Haley Hendershot: Student Writing as Authentic Writing Practice
The Write Stuff - Virginia
October 2014
Haley Hendershot and I first met when she was completing her practicum work prior to her first full time teaching position. She was training with my colleague at school, and we struck up a conversation about poetry. Haley was working toward her Master of Fine Arts through a college in Vermont, and we were both looking for people with whom we could workshop poems and short fiction. That was nearly seven years ago. Since that time, Haley has moved, finished her MFA, been head of her department at a middle school in Henrico County outside of Richmond, Virginia, and has developed a definite philosophy on the impact of authentic writing assignments and publication in relation to her students’ investment in the craft.
Dr. Paul Rogers: Learning to Write, Writing to Learn
The Write Stuff - Virginia
September 2014
Amidst the rush of graduate classes this past summer, I had the opportunity to meet, share writing with, and learn from Dr. Paul M. Rogers, Associate Chair of English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He was ending his three year leadership role as the director of the Northern Virginia Writing Project, and was finishing his fifth year as leader of the Invitational Summer Institute. With NVWP as the impetus for this blog, Dr. Rogers, Paul as he prefers, was the first name that came to mind when I started considering people who might have excellent advice for teachers seeking to use writing in their classrooms.