Sarah lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma with her partner Dan who likes to ask, “What did you write about today?” She was a teacher of readers and writers in junior high for 15 years before making her way into teacher education at Oklahoma State University. Sarah …
Rewrite, Redo
Inspiration Process Write Resources I could tell you that I’m a high school English teacher in Michigan, and that, I guess, is true enough, but, just now, I’d really rather strive – as Hemingway would say – to write “one true sentence” about myself: I’m …
Come, Join My Reality
Inspiration Process Write Resources Amber lives in Grove, Oklahoma where she teaches English Language Arts at Grove High School. She serves as the sponsor for International Club: this past summer, Amber traveled with students on adventures across Panama; and this upcoming summer they will go …
Place Tells Me to Be
Inspiration Process Write Resources Chea lives in Temple, Texas where she teaches remotely at Purdue University. She primarily teaches pedagogy courses for mixed content areas but tries to sneak poetry and young adult literature in there wherever she can. She is obsessed with how place …
Borrowed Lines
Inspiration Process Write Resources Donnetta Norris is a 2nd grade teacher in Arlington, TX. She has facilitated workshops with TeachWrite, LLC. and continues to host a weekly Time To Write writing group session with TeachWrite. She is also a guest blogger with Teach Better Team. …
Genetic Cinquains
Inspiration Process Write Resources Jessica lives in Conway, Arkansas, and is an Alternative Learning Environment Teacher/Special Education Teacher in Morrilton, Arkansas at Southern Christian Children’s Home. One of the many passions in her life is advocacy for appropriate, educational, and functional services and programs for …
Forensic Poetry
Inspiration Process Write Resources Our Host today is Susie Morice, from St. Louis, Missouri where she taught in the classroom for thirty years and then for another twenty consulted, wrote, and edited educational publications, focusing on leadership in education. The National Writing Project, Gateway Writing …
The Room Where it Happened
Inspiration Process Write Resources Alexis Ennis is a 6th grade technology teacher who calls herself a “bookdragon” because of her voracious appetite to read and hoard all the books. She is the co-creator of a YouTube channel that showcases kidlit authors and illustrators –Legit KidLit. …
Island Earth
Inspiration Process Write Resources Emily lives in Vinalhaven, Maine, an island 15 miles from the mainland, where she teaches middle schoolers science and ELA at the Vinalhaven School. Emily believes in student voice and choice, and making connections to our world. She received recognition from …
House in the Sky
Inspiration Process Write Resources Darius Phelps is a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an adjunct professor at CUNY Queens, Hunter College, Teachers College, and intern at Brooklyn Poets. An educator, poet, spoken word artist, and activist, Darius writes poems about grief, …