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Teach Writing Tomorrow

✏️ Teaching Writing through Transformation (James Moffett on Invention)

What if we start writing all wrong? What does James Moffett say about invention in writing?

Jan 17 • Adam

✏️ Why Traditional Prewriting Fails (1.0)

Under POSIWID, prewriting works to prevent writing.

Jan 11 • Adam

📚 English Has No Super-Structure (James Moffett on English Curriculum)

Why textbooks and academic standards will always fail.

Dec 31, 2025 • Adam

✏️ Getting Difficult Students to Write (and Other Topics)

How do you get difficult students to write? What books would I suggest for teaching writing? Hint: This does not involve paragraph acronyms.

Dec 13, 2025 • Adam

Writing Tricks

✏️ Off topic student essays? Try this easy intervention.

Moving from off topic to focused takes less effort than you’d think!

Dec 11, 2024 • Adam

🖥️ How Google Forms Helped My Students Write Better (ft. Jack Watson)

...and yours can too!

Nov 30, 2024 • Adam and Jack Watson

🖥️ Round Pegs, Square Holes, and Google Forms

Ever want to categorically exclude responses on Google Forms? How do you address round pegs in square holes?

Nov 23, 2024 • Adam

🖥️ Three Big Benefits to Teaching with Student Writing

Students learn through student writing. So collect and curate it.

Sep 30, 2024 • Adam

Humor

📰 AI Detector Catches both Student and Teacher

Student defended self saying he “met the teacher where he was at.”

Sep 20, 2025 • Adam

📰 Student Begins Semester with Perfect Grades

*satire* In a hallway press conference, local student Bridger declared he has started the semester with perfect grades. "I did it! I have all A's! Take…

Aug 16, 2025 • Adam

📰 They always had pencils?

After more than 170 days of coming to class without pencils and paper, a locker clean out reveals students had supplies all along.

May 16, 2025 • Adam

📰 Teen Completes State Test in Record Five Minutes

Trailblazer torches previous record of fifty questions in eight minutes.

Apr 16, 2025 • Adam

Dual Coding Theory

🧠 My Ditch That Textbook Guest Post (Ten Ways Pictures Boost Learning)

How did I end up on Ditch That Textbook?

Oct 8, 2024 • Adam

🧠 Blue Trucks and Reading Dances: Five Fast Implications to Dual Coding Theory

What is the most effective reading comprehension strategy ever?*

Sep 16, 2024 • Adam

🧠 What is Dual Coding Theory? (Hint: Not Computer Related.)

Hint: DCT deals with the brain, not computers.

Sep 7, 2024 • Adam

Quilted Writing (Conference Preview)

A preview of an upcoming workshop on dual coding theory.

Jul 15, 2024 • Adam

Recent posts

🖥️ Where AI Fails Analogy Questions (+ Templates)

How does Gemini work—and not work—with creating analogies? This post includes prompting, templates, and examples galore!

Dec 28, 2025 • Adam

✏️ Getting Difficult Students to Write (and Other Topics)

How do you get difficult students to write? What books would I suggest for teaching writing? Hint: This does not involve paragraph acronyms.

Dec 13, 2025 • Adam

💬 Where Traditional Writing Instruction Fails

Yes, this includes those dreadful paragraph acronyms.

Nov 28, 2025 • Adam

💬 My AMLE25 Talk (“Help! I don’t know how to teach writing!”)

Recently I spoke at AMLE25 in Indianapolis. If you missed it, I wanted to post links to relevant posts.

Nov 15, 2025 • Adam

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