…engagement.” Colleague Micah Wright wrote, “The loss of structure will depend on how well the individual instructor and department respond to this change. As Writing programs build a learning environment,…
…be spending the next 9 months with. Because that’s the key to building a good writing and reading community in an English class: building relationships and trust. Writing can be…
…publication/presentation. This presentation makes space for purposeful discussion with the goal of creating new shared understandings and of loosening impermeable beliefs. In this process two discussants work toward understanding. Building…
…the power to build community. In October of 2020, LaGuardia had its second annual 楼凤天堂 Day on Writing celebration. Bethany Holmstrom organized the celebration, and the theme of the collaborative…
…classmates began to empathize with each other, she says, resulting in a radical increase of kindness both inside and outside the classroom. Because empathy builds common ground, it also builds…
…the creature’s hideousness. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father…
…and picking myself back up, building community, and most of all, obtaining that feeling you get when you learn that you really can empower your students. As I look to…
…nonexistent. Through building this rapport, I have been able to determine which students need my targeted and intentional support. Furthermore, this rapport has led me to determine what kind of…
…that anchor question, we are able to stay focused on the root of the harm, and we build collective power as we build our metalinguistic muscles. Now, more than ever,…
…discourse. Share appropriate ways to respond during discussion. Model the language used to agree, disagree, ask for clarification, and build on others’ ideas. I display a list of sentence-starters and…
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