I love Dyson’s talk about the official and unofficial classroom in the Pine Cone Wars article: “Through analytic accounts of classroom life, I have aimed to capture the inevitable interplay between the official classroom community, with its values and practices, and the unofficial one generated by children. This interplay can be both beneficial and challenging [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Anne Dyson and the unofficial classroom
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UIWP 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged NWP, UIWP, writing project on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
And another Summer Institute starts! This year another 15 teachers will learn and read and write (and eat) together for four weeks. Today we drew our writing processes–fascinating how different they are, even among pretty good writers. And we’re all on NWP interactive, Twitter, wordpress, with more coming. Everyone brought a laptop this year. That’s [...]
