Matthew M. Johnson

I’ve always loved teaching, but I didn’t always love what teaching did to my life. In my early years, I spent my nights and weekends endlessly commenting on student papers and vainly trying to chop away at my Sisyphean to-do list. Making matters worse during these harried, hurried years was that no matter how much of the midnight oil I burnt, my students struggled to become the writers and thinkers I knew they could be.

This site exists because I knew that I needed to become more efficient and more effective, both for my students and myself, and so over a decade ago I began a search for how to do the job better and faster. What you will find here are resources, practices, and thoughts that have helped me to do that in my classes, even as class sizes and the requirements of our jobs have ballooned in the decade since.