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Digital Reflections: Our Uncanny Valley
Skilled Labor in the Classroom
Verbal Tea: Reading the Leaves
Crazy Questions for Pete Buttigieg about Bill Gates’ Toy
The Mythology of Individual Knowledge and Objective Learning: Bill Gates and a Childhood Toy
Modern Rhetoric for the Classical Student: The WWE Stance
Exploring the Four Corners of the Text Doctrine of Close Reading in AI-Integrated Classrooms
Higher Education in the United States is in Trouble—Really?
Beyond Writing Formulas: Autonomous Motivation and Ethical AI Tool Use
Writing in Triads: I, You, and It
Writers Who Live in Glass Houses
Common Ground in the AI Debate
Using AI Responsibly in the Writing Classroom
From Stuck to Unstuck: Using AI as Your Study Coach
Handwringing and Handwriting: The End of a Great Debate (For Now)
A Foreword: The Education of Writerly Attention
Developing A State of Heightened Sensitivity to the Writing Task Environment
A Heavy Lift: Literacy in the Weight Room
An Alternate Past for Public Schools
The Body Writes What AI Cannot
AI in Education: Past as Prologue
Stream of Consciousness: A Kind of Writing Alien to Bots
Swimmers, Writers, and Writing Teachers: Diving in the Deep End of the Pool
Bridging the Gap Between Early and Late AI Adopters
Above and Below: When Abstract Thinking Comes to Life
Fine Dining, Dead Poets, and the Demise of Public Education
Errata—and a Few Tunes from Folsom Market
Reconstructing Grading Practices in American Classrooms: A Project Whose Time Has Come
AI and Professional Judgment: The Quest for Being There
Bent Notes, Riffing, and Phrasing: Music in Literacy
Where the Grades of Wrath Are Stored
APGAR: A Model for Thinking About Authentic Assessment
Common Ground for the Common School in the Second Trump Age
Ideology: It's Such a Waste of Energy
Beyond Blood Ties: Breaking the Chains of Family Rule in Democracies
Unfinished Literacy Work: America's Constitutional Compromise with Democracy
The Literacy Test: From Constitutional Debate to Jim Crow and Beyond
A Brief History of Literacy Tests
Accountability in a Meritocracy: How Does That Work?
AI-Assistance Is, AI-Abdication Is…
Wanna Flight, You Brainless Twit?
Reading the News with Perplexity
Flow and Fusion: Ghosts in the Learning
A New Day for Human Relationships
Segmenting Learning for Transport
The (In)Tense Space Between Synthesis and Interpretation in Reading Events
Do Readers Perceive Every Word the Same Way Every Time?
Improvisational Pedagogy: An Emerging Way of Teacher Thinking in the Moment of Learning
Reading a Text Titled “Weather Forecast”
Getting the Main Idea: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Functional Instruction in Reading Comprehension
How to Change a House into a Horse
Public School Teachers: A Vanishing Breed
Comprehending Comprehension: Finger Food for Thought
Reading the World and Project 2025 Beyond the Second Degree
A Problem of Reading Comprehension: Was the Feds Rate Cut Political?
PREWRITING SESSION FOR ADULT WRITERS: Getting Started on an Historical Essay
PREWRITING SESSION FOR ADULT WRITERS: Getting Started on a Historical Fiction Narrative
AI-Mentor Prompt and Demonstration: Writing Historical Fiction in the English Classroom
The Universe of Writing Processes
Assessing School Writing: Navigating the Universe of Discourse
AI Consultant Hangs Out a Shingle
Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence: AI1 Meet AI2.
Keeping Track of Challenge as a Student Writer
AI-Infused Revision Prompt: Autobiographical Incident Assignment
AI-Infused Drafting Prompt: Autobiographical Incident (AI-AI Prompt II in the Series)
Revised AI-Infused Prewriting Prompt
A Prewriting Prompt in an AI-Infused Writing Classroom
AI Feedback in Mid-Level Writing Classrooms
A Provisional AI Use Decision Guide
Joint Attention and Self-Attention in AI Literacy Instruction
AI, Writing, and Third Person Decisions
Persistence: The Engine of Learning
Trying to ungrade? Try UPGRADE
Learning from Failure: E.B. and Andre
The Third Rail in American Schools
A Personal Letter: Teacher to Teacher
Cognitive Load Theory and Readability
Hearsay: An Out Of Court Statement Offered to Prove the Truth of Its Content
School Reform: Pie in the Sky?
Call and Response: The Rhythms of Cognition in Literacy
School Reform: Authenticity in Slanted Light
Measuring the Growth of Writing Teachers
Reflections on Portfolio Thinking
A Cross-Post from Shakespeare’s Monkey
On the Decision to Place a Crown on Donald’s Head
Meaty Prompts without the Hamburger Patty
The Idiot Meets Claude 3 Sonnet
Tension and Resolution: Music, Architecture, and Writing in the Ionian Mode
Making Contrasts: A Tool for Deep Learning and Ambitious Teaching
Turning the Tables on Knowledge
Blank Slates: A Retreat from Knowledge
(Dis)Interest(ed): On Taking Mental Attendance
Interest: On the Tip of a Semantic Iceberg
A Primordial Reader Response: Interest
Common Misconceptions about Reading Comprehension
Laboring to Learn to Labor in High School
Metacognition: Reflective Analysis on the Go
A Call for an End to Reading Comprehension Instruction?
Public School: Civil Right or Obligation?
A Big Problem: Can Morphology and Vocabulary Exercise Resolve It?
Raising Consciousness: Ambitious Teaching and Motivated Learning in the Age of AI
55.98 Seconds in October, 2016
Discussion as an Affordance: The Dark Ages of SparkNotes
Reading Serious Literature: Do We Teach It by Demanding It and Controlling It?
Teaching High School Students about High Schools: How Did We Get Here?
The Short and the Long of It: Hooked on Phonics
Univocality and Civility in Scientific Writing: A Return to Sense Making
Keep Your Eyes on Your Own Paper
Reframing Sentences: ChatGPTTurbo and Feedback at the Level of Syntax
Readability Assessment: Lessons from the Fence
Three Images: Novel Introductions
Scaling the Depths: Measuring Earthquakes and Reading Comprehension
Rhetorical Insurrection in Visual Modality
Intertextual Comprehension: Above 5.0 on the Richter Scale
Earthquake Questions: What If the Figured World of Reading Comprehension Were ReFigured?
From More to Less in Three Verses
Vizzy #2—A Close View of Botting Iron and Poetry
To Vizzy: Tighten with a Torque Wrench
Pragmatics: The Dustbin of Linguistics
Why History Sentences First-Grade Teachers to Teach the Sentence
How English Teachers Got Stuck with the Five Paragraph Essay: Introduction
The Beatle Boomers at Historic Folsom!
Human-Human Modality vs. Human-AI Modality in the Classroom
On Expert Opinion: Inspectors of Aspects, Perceptors of Precepts, Circumspectors of Spectators
Units of Measurement in School: Starting With the Carnegie Unit
Capturing an Audience the Hard Way
Curriculum: Knowledge Dosages Measured in Units of Time
Something Old, Something Blue: Two Tunes for the Ages
Artisans of Words Smithing on the Ship of Time: Double Vision
Where Have You Gone, Thaddeus Stevens?
Two Tunes: A Penny for Your Thoughts
Gazing at Schools Through the Lens of Power
Outrage: The Root of Moral Reasoning
The Reading Eye: Word Perception
Addendum to The Eyes of a Reader
Shifting the Reader on Automatic Pilot into Active Mode Reader-Writer
Writer as Docent: Taking the Reader by the Hand
Wine and Reading Comprehension: In Vino Veritas
In Vino Veritas: Wine and Reading Comprehension
I Think; Therefore, I Will Have Been
Money Talks: Decoding Political Literacy In Action
Dialing It In: Writing Prompts
Real Words, Artificial Prayers, Silicon Tears, Computerized Angst
Latour’s Black Box: A Reading Strategy for the Ages
Starship Enterprise: Jim Kirk or Donald Trump?
Neither a Reader nor a Writer Is He: President Donald Trump
Donald Trump on Education: Starving the Public Schools, Feeding Chaos
Trump’s Recurrent Method: Disrupting or Distorting Datasets By Any Means Possible
Embracing the Bat: Literacy Education in the Age of Advanced AI
Debiasing: A Basic Skill in Literacy Learning
Looking Down the Barrel of Language: Locked and Loaded