Purpose Before Pancakes
This past week, my second book, The Secret Sauce: Essential Ingredients to Exceptional Teaching was released. One of the things that…
Tag: writing
How Writing is Taught
I was recently listening to a podcast in which Brian Koppelman, creator and writer of the hit TV show…
Great Writers Write
#4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don’t worry, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite…
5 Ways To Continue Learning This Summer!
Summer break provides a great opportunity to relax and refresh from the hard work you do all year. But…
10 Sticky Note Strategies
What can you or students do with all of those extra sticky notes that are lying around? Try these…
Think Habit Instead of Talent
On a recent Master Class that I watched, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, film director, screenwriter and author, David Mamet…
Great Writers Write
Seth Godin was once being interviewed and was asked this question: What is your actual writing process? He challenged…
50 Words
Author, Stephen King writes 2000 words per day. Author, Kate DiCamillo writes two pages per day. Author, Neil…
We Write
I’m a writer. I don’t always write in 40 minute writing blocks. Sometimes, I get stuck. On many…
6 More Favorite Picture Books
As you know, some of our favorite picture books can be great tools for teaching about reading or the…