Where do social action, art, music, technology, media, pop culture, and most importantly, student needs intersect?
Many of my colleagues still don’t get me. They don’t understand the degree to which I find writing essential. They don’t realize how much I love my students to write. They think I’m talking about some fairytale land where if I had the time, the right students, the curriculum, then and only then is when I would be taking my students through an inquiry cycle and a writing process as a community. WRONG!! I was eager to include “This I Believe” in my classroom. It had been so powerful with English teachers in...