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Professional Development Guide for Educators
Client: Partnership for Inquiry LearningProject: 5 Strategies for Effective In-House Professional Development: A guide for administrators, coaches, and facultyInbound marketing offer My favorite projects combine all my interests—teaching, writing, and marketing—like this professional development guide for educators that was developed as an inbound marketing offer for the Partnership for Inquiry Learning at Butler University.
Conferring Course
Improve your conferences with student writers. Enroll today in the 5-day mini-workshop by email that I created for the Partnership for Inquiry Learning at Butler University. Get more info
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Reading [grief] like a Writer: THE POND
The Pond by Nicola Davies is—in hindsight—the book I wish I’d found immediately after my brother died suddenly in February 2001. But even if it had existed then, I probably wouldn’t have found it, because it’s a children’s picture book, and I was an adult without children at the time.
Reading Like a Writer: Looking closely at “Speech Class”
Hear what happened when I looked closely at poems with a handful of middle grade elementary teachers and facilitated a discussion about the use of dialogue in one.
3 Things I Wish I’d Understood Sooner about Conferring with Young Writers
What I learned from visiting consultant Matt Glover that completely changed my thinking about conferring in writing workshop.
Craft Strategy: White Space
I suspect my undergraduate writing students will have no difficulty recognizing at least one craft strategy in my recently published essay, “Reckoning.” I teach it early and often. Perhaps it’s my trademark. I’m talking about white space. I like to use it around a single short line to make the line stand out and demand…
Crafting Grief: Narrative Point of View
First in a series of posts looking closely at the craft of writing about grief Last month I facilitated a writing workshop about narrative point of view (NPOV), and afterwards it occurred to me that I have looked closely at the craft of many texts specifically about grief. I’ll even be so bold as to…
Feedback is important (and I mess up sometimes)
In the first post in this series, I was thinking about the feedback I give student writers. That leads me to another big observation: sometimes I mess up, perhaps even bad enough to set a kid back a little. Learn more about two conversations with students that I’d like to redo.
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Julie Patterson 