With every student I’ve taught, the writing process varies––some students can write beautiful first drafts and some require dozens of drafts to get there. Critiquing a story, like writing one, is an art, and the writing teacher’s and editor’s job is to sense the needs of each writer and help him or her build a Read More
My journalism students have been publishing an online edition for five years now, and it’s only in the last two years that they’ve really figured out how to do it right. When we first launched our website, it was a novelty, an afterthought, a place where we deposited our stories after they were printed, hoping Read More
We teachers sometimes mistake our own hard work and busyness for good teaching. Years ago, I used to be proud of myself for spending hours critiquing drafts of journalism stories on the nights before deadlines. We had a shared Google Doc with a list that students added their names to when they were ready for Read More