Summer Institute 2010 Looking back at my blog, I realize I started a series—a story about each of our Summer Institutes. So now I need to add the 2010 sequel. This summer, our third, has fallen into place much more easily than the last 2 Sis. The same teachers make up our leadership team and [...]
Archive for June, 2010
2010 Summer Institute!
Posted in U of Illinois Writing Project on June 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
About Why School? by Mike Rose
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, education policy on June 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Rose, Mike. Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us. New York: New Press, 2009. Mike Rose wrote Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievement of America’s Underprepared about his own schooling which I consider the most useful description of life for a working class student ever written. Some of his own experiences show [...]
working with ELL writers
Posted in U of Illinois Writing Project on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At the Writers Workshop we tutor ELL writers every day, and every hour. We all have developed techniques for helping them without actually writing the paper, but we still struggle with the balance between collaborating with the writer (what we’re supposed to do) and giving explicit directions. Most of us who are native English speakers [...]
