By Kat Kiefer-Newman Halloween. This really doesn't matter much in the college classroom, I know; except when it does (like if class falls on Halloween, or the…
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By Rich Russell Honestly, I don't remember my teachers in high school or college (as an undergraduate) using rubrics, and so if they did, I certainly never…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do you remember writing those horrible gradeschool essays "What I did for my summer vacation"? I always hated those because we rarely did anything…
I have mentioned in a past blog the amount of time I spend writing and answering email on an average day (one hour for four or five…
I watched my youngest graduate from high school and, while I was extremely proud of her, it was a bittersweet moment for me. Proud, because of her…
I recently wrote about wordriver (and my ambivalence regarding it). This week I'd like to touch on a markedly different publication, Kairos. Kairos is subtitled "A Journal…
by Kat Kiefer-Newman It was bound to happen in one of my classes. I knew that sooner or later I would be confronted by the fanatical devotion…
As I've said before, critical thinking is important, but if the students can't figure out how to put their ideas down on the page in a readable…
I was out walking with a friend last week and the conversation turned, as it often does, to school. She'd just finished her college-level writing class and…
In his recent (2009) book Designing the Smart Organization author Roland Deiser primarily focuses on learning in the corporate environment. In fact, one of his starting points is…
