by Amanda | Feb 3, 2023 | Equity, Neurodiversity, New Style Blog Post, New Style Podcast, Social Justice
In January of 2022 I wrote a blog post about my identity crisis as an educator and teacher-author. I wrote about how I needed to go back to all the lessons and units I’ve ever written and look at them from an equity lens. I went on a quest to read all the social...
by Amanda | Jan 27, 2023 | Argumentative Writing, Podcast, Support for Struggling Writers, Technology, Writing Units
Amanda Write Now · 66. 11 Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Teach Argumentative Writing It’s about time for teachers to start their opinion, persuasive, or argumentative writing units (depending on the grade you teach). Most teachers realize that sample sentences and...
by Amanda | Jan 20, 2023 | Discussion, Podcast, Secondary Teachers, Technology
148SHAREShare Tweet Pin It The best way to handle new technology being introduced to the education world is to investigate the tools for ourselves, with an open mind, rather than getting caught up in fear and overwhelm. I know this is hard to do,...
by Amanda | Jan 13, 2023 | Assessment, Podcast, Support for Struggling Writers, Technology
Share Tweet Pin It Now that students have easy access to artificial intelligence chatbots like Chat GPT, teachers are pondering how to prevent students from using these tools to do their work for them. Cheating seems to be easier than ever these days....
by Amanda | Jan 6, 2023 | Assessment, Equity, Make Writing Fun, Podcast, Support for Struggling Writers, Technology
612SHAREShare Tweet Pin It In the last few weeks I’ve been playing with, talking to teacher friends, reading articles, and thinking about one thing… Chat GPT. I learned about this new AI tool in early December through a Facebook Group post...
by Amanda | Oct 19, 2022 | Equity, Make Writing Fun, Podcast, Social Justice, Support for Struggling Writers, Writing Independence
Share Tweet Pin It Every classroom has struggling writers. There are many reasons young writers struggle during our writing units. They may feel overwhelmed, be uninterested, have writing skill deficits because of past experiences with writing,...
by Amanda | Sep 27, 2022 | Assessment, Equity, Podcast, Reading, Secondary Teachers, Support for Struggling Readers
Share Tweet Pin It I wrote this six part equity series to better understand the inequities surrounding the ways in which we teach and assess reading and writing skills in the United States. I wanted to know more. Not only that, I wanted to find...
by Amanda | Sep 8, 2022 | Assessment, Equity, Podcast, Social Justice
Share Tweet Pin It In this six-part series, I outline exactly how I’m rethinking my workshop classroom with an equity lens. You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1: Rethinking Writing Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 2: Rethinking...
by Amanda | Aug 23, 2022 | Assessment, Equity, Podcast, Reading Units, Social Justice, Unit Planning, Writing Units
Share Tweet Pin It In this six-part series, I outline exactly how I’m rethinking my workshop classroom with an equity lens. You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1: Rethinking Writing Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 2: Rethinking...
by Amanda | Aug 12, 2022 | Conferencing, Equity, Podcast, Social Justice
In this six part series I will outline exactly how I’m rethinking conferencing with an equity lens. Check out part 1 about rethinking writing workshop here. Check out part 2 about rethinking reading workshop here. Before getting started, we need to define workshop,...
by Amanda | Apr 9, 2022 | Equity, Podcast, Reading, Social Justice
Share Tweet Pin It Part 1: Rethinking Writing Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 2: Rethinking Reading Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 3: Rethinking Conferencing with Equity in Mind Part 4: Rethinking Unit Design with Equity in Mind Part 5: Rethinking...
by Amanda | Feb 20, 2022 | Equity, Podcast, Social Justice
Share Tweet Pin It Amanda Write Now · 56. Rethinking Writing Workshop With Equity In Mind Part 1: Rethinking Writing Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 2: Rethinking Reading Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 3: Rethinking Conferencing with Equity in Mind...
by Amanda | Jan 8, 2022 | Podcast, Secondary Teachers, Social Justice, Support for Struggling Writers
I’ve learned and changed tremendously since the events of 2020-2021, you might even call what’s happened an identity crisis…I want to share this story here to make sense of everything for myself but also because I know there are many teachers out there...
by Amanda | Jul 31, 2021 | Secondary Teachers, Support for Struggling Writers
751SharesShare Tweet Pin It Writing is such a critical subject to master. Students who have confidence and skills as writers have the potential to go far in education and life. But, writing is one of the toughest subjects to teach and one of the...
by Amanda | May 23, 2021 | Podcast, Professional Development Books
What are your plans this summer? Hopefully, you plan to do a whole lot of relaxing and enjoy every minute of your time off!But, I know after a few weeks of soaking in all the free time, teachers start looking for opportunities to improve their teaching craft. If this...