Chippewa River Writing Project
A site of the National Writing Project at Central Michigan University
If asking students to develop their voice, stamina, and range of techniques as writers isn’t hard enough, we now have a variety of devices, websites, and apps that students want to use in order to enhance their writing. From Google Docs to Prezis to whatever new app will come out tomorrow, we know that students […]
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Anyone who teaches young children knows that when a parent walks into the classroom with a preserved alligator’s head, you have to drop everything you had planned to do and just go with it. That is exactly what happened in my first grade classroom last February. A student’s dad had been working in Louisiana since […]
Continue ReadingThis is the first in a series of blog posts that Amanda will share about her school’s transition to Project Based Learning. Change is never easy. And I feel like the older I get, the more I become flustered with making big changes. It usually involves learning something new, and sometimes that can seem like a […]
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