So what does refinishing three old doors teach me about teaching and learning? This is one of those projects that we put off. For years. When we renovated our old house (built ca 1860) in 2000, we didn’t use crappy new doors or expensive, authentic new doors – we used all the lovely old raised…
Tag: Process
An open letter to the NCAA Clearinghouse
How dare you? How dare you say that Journalism is not a “real” English class? How dare you say that my curriculum is not rigorous? What do you know about the day to day challenges of the student journalist? What do you know about how hard they work to report and write stories? What do…
Rehearsal, revision: preview, prehear?
Do we have a word for imagining what something will sound like? Beethoven, famously deaf, must have been able to imagine what his works sounded like without hearing them. Mozart? Saltzburgian lore suggests that he too heard compositions in his head before he committed them to paper. Jazz musicians must be able to imagine what…
Writing and Revision – to Re-see
Thanks to Clay Burell for asking me to consider finishing this entry. As part of our Community Connections work this year we published an anthology of student writing. The anthology included the writing of every member (but one) of the junior class, and each student was asked to revise a piece of writing until their…
Living on the Lip of Insanity 