{"id":1178,"date":"2022-02-23T05:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2022-02-23T05:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:49:25","slug":"episode69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2022\/02\/23\/episode69\/","title":{"rendered":"69. When teachers identify as writers with Jen Laffin"},"content":{"rendered":"

How might we improve the teaching of writing by identifying as writers ourselves? Today on the show I speak with Jen Laffin, founder of Teach Write.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If there is one thing that I know to be true, it is that identifying as a writer has profoundly shaped how I teach writing. I love writing, I embrace the struggle, and I have always shared that process with my classes. But stepping out of the classroom this year and looking more broadly at writing instruction through this PhD research is showing me that this \u201cteacher as writer\u201d stance is not commonly held.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is no great wonder that the Instagram algorithm led me to find Jen Laffin and Teach Write. Jen was a classroom teacher for 9 years and transitioned into mentoring teachers and designing workshops to help teachers create powerful writing practices for young people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This conversation is essentially two writing nerds geeking out together about something they both love. I didn\u2019t know Jen before this interview, but as we chatted and laughed and shared stories, I felt like Jen was a long time friend, teacher buddy, and someone that I just wanted to hang out with and write with. I\u2019m pretty confident that after listening along, you will feel the same way. And don\u2019t worry, at the end of the convo, Jen share some ways that you can indeed just hang out and write more with her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough from me, let\u2019s get into it with Jen Laffin. Click on the SoundCloud link to listen to the full episode:<\/span><\/p>\n

Things Mentioned in This Show:<\/h3>\n

Jen’s Upcoming Workshop<\/a><\/p>\n

Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide by Ralph Fletcher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Feedback That Moves Writers Forward: <\/span>How to Escape Correcting Mode to Transform Student Writing by Patti McGee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How might we improve the teaching of writing by identifying as writers ourselves? Today on the show I speak with Jen Laffin, founder of Teach Write.\u00a0 If there is one thing that I know to be true, it is that identifying as a writer has profoundly shaped how I teach writing. I love writing, I … Continue reading “69. When teachers identify as writers with Jen Laffin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-tomorrow-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}