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I LOVE Susan Cain's book Quiet, but it did make me nervous about forced verbal participation (in large group situations) in the classroom. This article offers an interesting, and I think reasonable, response.

An anti-prescriptivist English teacher friend sent this to me. It speaks to our collective fear of making mistakes in emails, as well as our sometimes misplaced anger at students for "text-speak."

Thinking about punctuating some of my (kind of musty) British poetry lessons with some modern applications of poetry. Louder Than A Bomb is awesome. They're also coming out with a documentary later this month.