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Welcome! Here you'll find innovative secondary ELA curriculum, like podcasting projects, one-pagers, PBL units for genius hour and AI research, choice reading program elements, hexagonal thinking for any text, and more. After almost a decade in teaching, I now host The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast and design curriculum for creative English teachers full time. You can find me on Edutopia, Cult of Pedagogy, Truth for Teachers, We Are Teachers, NCTE's Read Write Think and more.
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Winter Holiday Maker Space Writing Project
HOLIDAY WRITING FREEBIE! I hope this helps take some stress out of your holiday season. Holiday creative writing projects help keep students (and teachers) going during the busy month of December. If you want happy, engaged students in the build up to winter break, this engaging unit can help. I was inspired by the amazing book Make Writing, by Angela Stockman, to create a series of ELA maker space projects. First, students make something using art or maker materials. Then, they write about it
9th - 12th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
CCSS
W.9-10.3d
, W.9-10.4
, W.9-10.5
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Welcome! Here you'll find innovative secondary ELA curriculum, like podcasting projects, one-pagers, PBL units for genius hour and AI research, choice reading program elements, hexagonal thinking for any text, and more. After almost a decade in teaching, I now host The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast and design curriculum for creative English teachers full time. You can find me on Edutopia, Cult of Pedagogy, Truth for Teachers, We Are Teachers, NCTE's Read Write Think and more.
Teaching style
I like to use creative, artistic, differentiated pedagogies. I constantly promote free-choice reading, use interdisciplinary journal prompts and help students explore different forms of creative writing. I like a variety of discussion forms like literature circles and fishbowl discussions, but particularly focus on developing the group dynamics required for round-table discussions.
Awards & shining teacher moments
National Arthur Ashe Award for Community Involvement, Leadership, and Sportsmanship
The Webb Schools New Teacher Award
My own education history
B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Middlebury College
Additional biographical information
The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast
The Creative High School English Facebook Group
@nowsparkcreativity
nowsparkcreativity.com
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