Quiz

What is your teaching superpower? Take this quiz to find out! Along with your results, we will also provide ideas for optimizing your strengths while working on your...'not so strengths.'

Video Exerpt

Learn what podcasts can do in your classroom from a teacher who is already implementing them in hers. Check out this teacher interview excerpt from my course 'Make Writing Real.'

Audit Your Instruction PD

Get Your Instructional Self-Audit On... Get perspective on the strength of your instructional practices so you can plan your best year yet.

Optimizing Instruction Checklist

As you begin to plan for this unprecedented upcoming school year, make sure your instruction and projects will intrinsically motivate your students to learn even when the learning environment is disrupted. Put this optimization checklist up against each project or plan to make sure you are creating the best learning environment for all students.

Summer Reads 2020: Young Adult Edition

Book suggestions to #buildyourstack this year. This list includes our suggestions for building out a well-rounded, inclusive classroom library where every students can find themselves within the pages of a good book.

Summer Reads 2020: Teacher Edition

Looking for some great professional development books to up your teaching game? Check out some of the titles on this list!

Basic Keyword Searches

This one-page handout will remind students year-round what it means to be creative and steadfast when it comes to key-word searching a topic. A 101 guide: Don't take 'no' from Google!

Exploring Stakeholder Perspectives

Knowing who has a 'say' in the matter can help your writers dig deep. This handout will assist your writers in generating leads for research via stakeholder consideration.

The 'HAND' Approach

This kit features all the materials you need to try out the 'hand' approach in your classroom, including handouts, Slides, rubrics, and sample essays.

The Debate Kit

This kit features a number of materials you'll need to run a well-researched debate project in your classroom. From speech timetables and outlines, team strategies, and student samples, it's all right here!

6-3-5 Brainstorm Matrix

This brainstorming strategy includes all students and generates *tons* of ideas. Check out the corresponding blog post, '6 Collaborative Brainstorming Strategies for High School Students' to see what the hype is all about!

Elements of an Essay

Use this guide to help students understand the different parts of the essay.

Designing Arguments: Counterarguments

This workbook guides students through the process of developing clear counterarguments step-by-step.

Understanding quotations, paraphrase, and summary

This handout outlines for students the difference between the use of quotations, summaries, and paraphrase.

RAVEN Source Analysis

A systematic approach to analyzing sources. This gives a whole new know-how to 'don't believe everything that you read', especially in a digital era.

Teaching the language of nuance

It can be easy to teach arguments in black-and-white. Using terms like 'pro' and 'con', 'for' and 'against,' can be an easy jumping-off point, but there's tons of grey area to explore beyond the binary! Help students express multiple perspectives through the language of nuance.

Drawing evidence-based conclusions

An effective conclusion is more than a mere summary; it contains an educated opinion, a judgment, where the student gains full license to be part of the academic conversation. This quick exercise helps them understand what we mean...

Understanding Fallacies (Slides)

Logical fallacies aren't terms to be memorized. They're concepts our students need to fundamentally understand in order to sniff out a poor argument.

Understanding Fallacies (Handout)

Logical fallacies aren't terms to be memorized. They're concepts our students need to fundamentally understand in order to sniff out a poor argument.

Socratic Starters

Do your students need a little nudge in getting that Socratic discussion going? Use this handout to give students a verbal point of access for entering the conversation!

Standard grammar + style 'rules'

I just love this list as a quick way of 'showing' grammar errors in action (as opposed to telling our students)! It's a nice way to preview some of the errors our writers will likely make yet it makes them immediately conscious of them, so they may just steer clear yet!

Why Punctuation Matters

Why does punctuation matter? Just ask John! This short series of 'love notes' to John demonstrates to students the power of punctuation.

Designing Arguments: Toulmin Method

This workbook breaks down the Toulmin Model in a student-friendly way. Includes writing sample.

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Reimagine Writing | Mini-Project Playbook

5 project-based lesson ideas that’ll catapult your writers from burnt-out to bought-in! This set of lessons situate writing in authentic contexts, so your students can more readily understand the value of writing as it applies to the real world!  There are 5 mini-projects in total, each kit containing detailed lesson plans (from warm-up to final reflection!), suggested learning goals, and related, student-friendly resources.

$27.00 USD

Photo Essay Resource 'Super Stack'

To meet this real-world argumentative method, students will use a series of photos, to create an argument and corresponding presentation that shares a message with their audience.

$12.00 USD

Teaching Arguments | 'Tree of Reasoning' activity

This activity makes learning *visual* by likening the structure of a tree to the line of reasoning in an argument. And it encourages a hands-on, creative approach your students will appreciate! Your resource kit equips you with a colorful set of slides to introduce line of reasoning to your writers, a class-wide activity to launch their learning into action, and a student workbook for individual argument development + exploration.

$12.00 USD

DIY Digital Escape Rooms

Are you smitten by the idea of using educational escape rooms in your ELA class but hesitant to design one yourself? Escape rooms are a great way to get your students immediately involved in the classroom while making the learning process a memorable one. This high-energy, instructional resource will help you DIY escape room activities that perfectly fit your unique group of writers.

$22.00 USD

The Analog Social Network, an ELA classroom resource

Set a strong foundation for your semester with this 5-part unit plan for using social media practices to build in-class relationships and practice real-world writing. Level 1: Personal DevelopmentLevel 2: Dissecting Social MediaLevel 3: Culture BuildingLevel 4: Building an In-class Social NetworkLevel 5: On-going Writing Development

$22.00 USD