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I write because as a teacher of writing, I want to experience the struggle, anxiety and pain of having to produce writing on demand. I want to remember the experience of feeling less-than-confident about what you've produced often at the request and demand of others. Over the past few years, my writing has become more public. This was not a natural evolution in my identity as a writer.  Even now, I have fears and hesitations about sharing my experiences as teacher and learner with the larger world.  Nonetheless, I find value in the feedback, the continuing conversations around a topic.  My ideas gets better when they are shared with others.
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find the classics (or in CCS terminology "challenging works") to go down easier. We need to see this as a valuable connection to the activities we engage in and the "work" we do when we are impassioned about a subject. A
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Which leads to the thought that we as educators need to wave our fan flags a little more often. Share what we geek out over, what we know a lot about -
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dent production), and generally a wider, more encompassing notion of what constitutes literacy. What's missing, though, is a concept that unites all of these goals, and more: being a fan
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Here is a great response from Deanna Burney following our conversation with Sam Chaltain and Kirsten Olson during #engchat
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moments between adults and children, and between students, and fail to honor this moral contract.  We believe the best English teachers raise big questions students care about.     What are the big questions you raise your instruction?  How? Do you perceive the contract between you and students a moral one? What are the constraints to honoring the moral contract between you and your students, in your current educational environment? How have networked learning environments helped you become an initiator of important questions?
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of School Reform" , Chapter 8:  For Whom Do Schools Exist?  Sarason argues that if we want schools to be places of academic rigor and inquiry for kids, that we have to create these conditions of learning for the adults so that they can create these conditions for our youth.
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eliefs, in order to build a professional environment with a strong normative culture. Before you even begin the conversation with our children, you must face each other as adults, and ask, Are you prepared to make your practice public?
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paid in full so to speak, up front – how will you fulfill your side of the agreement? The relationships and conversations we have as adults must have empathy for the learner
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