My Brief and Telling Subject A Panic
By Martin Brandt
It had seemed like a good idea at the time: a trip to San Diego, a chance to meet colleagues from around the state, a hotel with a bar. ISAW, the conference was called, for “Improving Student Academic Writing.” I would receive training in the principles and [...]
Mariana Figueroa, Christopher Elementary School
By Marie Milner
In Frank McCourt’s memoir Teacher Man, he ends his penultimate chapter with the words of one of his former high school students: “Hey, Mr. McCourt, you should write a book.” The first time I had a lengthy conversation with Mariana Figueroa, a first grade teacher at Christopher [...]
An invitation to our new Reading Group
By Marie Milner
In his widely-acclaimed book Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam laments the loss of community in the United States. As we all know, the San Jose Area Writing Project is the very antithesis on that notion, and in fact, we promote community. In that spirit we [...]
By Pam Cheng
It was a Saturday morning. I had another meeting. And I was looking forward to it. Last year teachers across grade levels from all over the bay area chose to meet in a small intimate group over coffee and pastries in the modern, sunlit Martin Luther King Junior Library. We discussed and explored [...]
Super Saturday
November 4: What Your “Grammar” Never Told You
Marty Brandt
(Independence High School, East Side UHSD)
Opening Speaker
Laura Brown & Pam Cheng (K-3)
(Mt. Pleasant Elementary, Mt. Pleasant SD & Cumberland Elementary, Sunnyvale ESD)
Resuscitate Your Grammar
Suzanne Murphy (4-8)
(St. Martin of Tours Elementary, Catholic Diocese of San Jose)
Mining Mentor Texts for Grammar Gems
Mara Bennet (9-12)
(Lincoln High School, San Jose [...]