Tag: Indiana Writing Project
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From Classroom to Keyboard: My Writing Routine
My Social Media Manager/daughter Sally Shideler scolds me. She’s the one who uploads all the posts I create for Facebook and Substack and WordPress. She’s the one who looks at my analytics and discusses strategy for promoting my book to readers and publishers. She’s the one who does the stuff I don’t enjoy. It’s a…
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Let’s ditch the tech
In today’s classrooms My heart was warmed today. And it had nothing to do with the near-record heat and humidity in the Midwest. No, it was a group of teachers who warmed it: eleven elementary, secondary, and post graduate teachers gathered for this year’s Invitational Summer Institute (ISI), conducted by the Indiana Writing Project Teacher…
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Together we grow
To my journaling educator friends We met, a pod of varied ages, values, upbringings, expectations and expertise. But all who spend our days hoping to ignite a spark in others. We gather according to the calendar to read and listen, to chuckle and giggle, to sigh and frown, but mostly to write– or draw or…
