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What Is Organizational Communication Anyway?
I’ve spent a lot of time this summer reading about organizational communication research, theory, and trends in preparation for beginning work on my study of the National Writing Project and the...
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Social Capital as Core Competency
I came to my interest in organizational communication by studying the idea of community as a teacher and writing groups as both a writer and teacher of writers. I have always believed very strongly in...
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What do I want to be when I grow up?
I have always known what I wanted to do. I wanted to work with words. I wanted to write and work with writers and I wanted to use my words to teach others. I am one of the fortunate people who knew...
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Creating a Writing Studio Program
This year the Morehead Writing Project has started a new program. The Morehead Writing Project Writing Studio Program provides peer writers to lead groups of student writers in developmental writing...
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What does our writing studio program look like?
Last week I wrote about why the Morehead Writing Project is creating a writing studio and this week I want to explain how our studio looks during its pilot. Of course, we do not know what will come of...
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Staying Put (off the tenure track), For Now
I just made a really big decision. A momentous decision that could potentially destroy my future (if you follow recent cyber discussions regarding the expiration date on new Ph.Ds) – I am not going on...
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Beginning with the writer
Within the past week we have witnessed something exciting in our Writing Studio program. We are seeing our basic writers begin to talk and act like writers. While their first writing assignments were...
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Community building with Google+ and Twitter
I have always worked to build community in my writing classes. I believe that community helps improve learning in general, but it is essential when working with writers (see Writing Networks or...
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Are you spending enough time thinking about writing?
My students don’t spend enough time thinking about writing – and probably yours don’t either. I understand why. After all, they have lots of other things on their mind. And to be honest, I sometimes...
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Breaking the cycle of defeat: Transforming students into writers
I teach writing for a living and I direct a National Writing Project site which means I work with both pre-service teachers and practicing teachers to improve their writing pedagogy. As a result I...
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Scared and Scarred No More
Last week I made the argument in “Breaking the Cycle of Defeat” that we need to spend more time in our classrooms attending to the self-beliefs of our students as well as the specific writing lessons...
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Writing Workshop and the rule of Garbage In, Garbage Out
A letter to my students: How can you benefit from our writing workshop?I know most of you would rather visit the dentist than participate in writing workshop. I understand that you have had painful and...
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Make Time To Refresh and Refill
I wasn’t going to blog this week. It is a perfect storm of professional and personal responsibilities. I have an article revision due, a conference to host on Saturday, a slew of student assignments to...
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Why doesn’t the teaching of writing matter?
Or, How I would fix education if I had any powerI spent Saturday celebrating the very essence of the National Writing Project at the Morehead Writing Project’s 2012 Writing Eastern Kentucky Conference....
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Measuring growth and change in our Writing Studio
This semester our National Writing Project site, the Morehead Writing Project, embarked on a new adventure. We created a Writing Studio by drafting five English Education students to serve as Peer...
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The Walking Dead in my writing classroom
http://themetapicture.com/ways-to-become-a-zombie/Or,How to kill those zombie students before campus is overrunYes, I am talking about the comic book and TV series, but in some ways this is also an apt...
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Writers as Reflective Practitioners
This week our Faculty Learning Community focused on the Morehead Writing Project met and we talked about our top priority for our writing classrooms and because many of us are also engaged in mentoring...
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Google vs. Blackboard
I use a lot of collaboration and interaction in my online writing classrooms with assignments including reflection journals, class discussion, and writing workshop. My institution’s course management...
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I have found balance and you can too
Those who spend time with me enough to know how extremely uncoordinated I am are probably laughing out loud, but it is true. I have found balance – or at least more balance than I may have ever had...
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Ringing in the New Year - pedagogically
I have often reflected at the end of the semester, in true Profhacker fashion, by giving a 3x3 course evaluation. This means sharing what worked, what didn’t, and what I plan to change. This was easy...
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