Brief story about Patti’s classroom culture of writing.

Patti and Jody discuss a remarkable, historic year and how they use writing and reflection to bring joy to learning.

Nic and Jody discuss what they value most when considering instructional design for their courses to best meet students’ needs.

Jess and Jody discuss writing situations and strategies they use with their students and own children to help them find joy in writing.

Maddie and Jody discuss how writing brings them joy and how they try to cultivate that sentiment in their students.

Jody and Patti discuss the connections between the writing process, relationships with their students, and civil discourse!

In this episode, Maribeth and Nic recap and extend TWIG’s recent conversation about how relationships affect conversations in a variety of contexts and way.

This question gets right to the heart of our work as educators and teachers of writers. We hope our students develop the confidence and skills to engage in hard conversations, especially in this moment when our country is deeply divided and it seems like there are few spaces for people with different perspectives to listen to each other, to think together, and to create. But as teachers, we can create these spaces and use writing as a powerful way to deepen and enrich the conversations. In this episode, we hear from fifth grade teacher Maddie Johnson about how she creates the conditions for civil discourse in her classroom.

A brief introduction to Teaching Writers Inquiry Group and Tuesdays with TWIG.