By Marie L. Milner
Voice - that ineffable something that allows us to read a piece of someone’s writing and see his or her very soul reflected there. As secondary school English or Language Arts teachers, if we have just read 52 essays one rainy weekend, and we come upon that paper with “voice,” [...]
A Spell that Connects One Heart to Another
By Laurie Halse Anderson
(adapted from a presentation at the 2005 ALAN Workshop in Pittsburgh, PA)
A couple of months ago, I went home again. I moved back to northern New York State. To understand the significance of this, you need to know that I fled the region [...]
That should NOT be the question!
Marie Milner
A teacher dropped a bomb in my collaboration group today. She has decided to seek a teaching assignment elsewhere. Sandy, a passionate high school teacher in a local private school is someone who values the writing workshop philosophy and applies it in her classroom. And [...]