Where did everyone go?

I just sent a note to a former student memorializing my summer at the Writing Project. Just missing the time we spent, and hoping everyone is off to a fabulous start as we round the fourth week! It was nice to briefly reconnect with those who showed up at the Fine Arts Fest! I hope you are all writing more that I have taken the time to!

Dobby-Dobby

Need Bell Righers?

Check out this website...

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

Hope the year gets off to a great start for everyone! Am missin' y'all!
k

Wow, I miss the writing project!

Grad School BOG!

I knew SOMETHING would go wrong, since I go admitted to Grad School SO EASILY! I cannot get into ISIS to enroll. Any suggestions, other than "Welcome to OUR world, Jamie!"?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

It's time...time to scramble!

It's here, and now I get to meet with my counterparts and convince them to shift toward building effective processes rather than assigning products. "Teaching English" can be so much more than applying editing marks on student papers!

This year, for the first time, I have a Required Student Materials list that insists that all have standardized journals, legal pads, post-its, colored pens, and 2 two-pocket folders. And this year, for the first time, I'm making no apologies for requiring these things. Hell, they signed up for a writing course that offers the possibility of Advanced Placement in college! If these basic writing materials and tools can help get them there, they should be tickled and grateful.

If I have all of these things gathered together before our back-to-school PD, maybe I could convince my feeder/PreAP teachers to adopt and implement some effective processes now that we have Mandatory Common Prep Time with built-in accountability structure. As Dylan told us long ago, "...the times, they are a-changin'."

Where'd everybody go?

Hello everyone!
I was invited and then joined Facebook, and I'm loving it! So many of us are already on it. If you haven't joined up yet, (comma) ya got to!

It's a bit lonely without everyone...


Danielle

Oh, and Scott, that is NOT my come hither pose. I wouldn't subject the group to that kind of torture!

Writing Withdrawl

When I first met you
I never thought I'd miss
you this much.

I'm still writing
but it's harder when
you're not there
to listen. and I miss your
writing that kept me
thinking.....wow.

You're like that light
on the back porch
i left on....accidentally
but it's the light that reminds me.

Get kids writing. Mike

Better publicity

http://coehp.uark.edu/

Check out our smiling faces at the top of the COEHP website.

cg

Group Pix

in helping with your transition back from the Summer Invitational

http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=469

monthly rants

For those interested and awake enough, this link should directly route to a repository of titillating outpourings of frustration and venom.

http://www.nwanews.com/columnist/?paper=bcdr&section=Editorial&columnist=Scott%20Sullivan&coltitle=Another+Look

Clip from Network: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew

Tomorrow?

I am spent . . . and completely despondent.

What will I do tomorrow, without all of you to talk with, and laugh with, and CRY WITH?

I have had an amazing summer. I couldn't have asked to spend it with more creative, supportive, wonderful people than all of you.

I will carry each of you with me as I march toward the first day of school.

Thank you.

YoudistractionTube

This is absolutely a priceless clip of the late, great Donald Graves talking about how to start writing. Enjoy.

"OK, Don, how do you create a class of writers?"

"Well the first thing you do is you write yourself. When you sit down to teach the class, you write yourself. What do you write about? You write about the first thing that comes to mind..."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_sXJKiiSA&feature=related

Live at Peabody Hall

I wish Sharla and Stephanie would use their inside voices...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-vpLtG_x4