Does Standardized Testing Encourage Patchwriting?

Summer Institute countdown: 13 weeks. Spring Break–the calm before the standardized-testing storm. It’s Spring Break for many South Florida schools, and teachers like me are catching up on sleep, Netflix, and counting down until summer. Nine weeks, by the way. But between this week-long idyll and the blue-sky expanse of June through August, we have…Continue Reading Does Standardized Testing Encourage Patchwriting?

Brand New Writing Project Site in Progress!

Summer Institute countdown: 14 weeks It’s not yet Spring Break, but we can already predict the word of the year here at the South Florida Writing Project–inaugural. Welcome to the inaugural blog post for the nascent SoFlo Writing Project from your new graduate assistant coordinator. So far, we have progressed from a planned two-week to…Continue Reading Brand New Writing Project Site in Progress!