Month: November 2019
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The Power of Implementing a Feedback Cycle
This post is an adapted excerpt from Flash Feedback, my upcoming book from Corwin Literacy. For years I struggled with the fact that I would spend untold hours scrawling notes and suggestions through each set of student papers only to have the next set of papers feel almost as if my feedback to the previous…
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What Makes Writing Authentic?
Last spring, during my month spent blogging about teaching the essay, a teacher asked me a question that I had no ready answer for: It is one thing to have students write narratives that they share with others or practice argumentation through writing letters to real people, but how can teachers make essays about books…
Matthew M. Johnson 