Bringing students to life with memoir writing
Education Week has published my essay on how powerful a tool personal narratives can be in the classroom, especially for students who struggle to measure up to academic standards. This is a subject about which I’m passionate, so I’m excited to get this article published.
Click here to read the article.
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I read your essay with interest and admiration. It did, however, bring a question to mind that I believe troubles all classroom and writing teachers. How do you handle revelations that legally or ethically require intervention? And on a less important vein, do you do the customary edit, revision, and rewrite work with this assignment, or is it a “one and done” writing activity? And finally, do you have a one-on-one conference with each student after the work is submitted? If so, do you concentrate on the content, the mechanics, or both?