Welcome to the Ethical ELA Podcast, a podcast about teaching English language arts, emphasis on language and art. We hope you listen on your drive to and/or from school each Monday!
In this episode, I talk to Iowa educator Allison Berryhill about reciprocity in writing and her experience hosting the February 5-day writing challenge. We discuss the value of audience, sharing responsibility in the classroom, and setting personal goals and parameters for writing.
Be sure to listen all the way through to hear two poems that will fill your drive to work this Monday morning with joy and inspiration.
Visit the February writing inspirations here:
- Day 1: Epistolary Poems
- Day 2: What have you lost?
- Day 3: An Apology Poem
- Day 4: Wishes & Wants
- Day 5: 20 Questions
We hope to write with you during the next 5-day challenge with Michigan teacher Jennifer Jowett, which begins March 14th. Sign-up below and click here for more information.
And remember what Annie Lamott says: Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life; they feed the soul. And don’t we all need a little soul nourishment today? Be well, teacher friends.