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Productivity Spotlight: A Phone Journal

| May 14, 2011

I used to be the queen of sticky notes. My desk was covered with them. But they weren’t sticky enough for me. They would fall off my monitor and eventually slip behind my desk…along with whatever essential information they contained. Well, no more of that nonsense. One day I was inspired to buy a small, [...]

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changing the system — how about some short, unit-sized texts?

| May 30, 2009

I received a letter from an old friend and fellow freelance writer today. She described a typical request from a textbook development house: can you write 37 pages of high school chemistry, this week? This is so typical of textbook development houses. And I have some sympathy for their situation, because often they don’t receive [...]

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Bringing a Whole Language Approach to Middle and High School Classrooms

| December 24, 2008

This post has been sitting here with no text in it for weeks. How appalling! When I came back to this title, I realized that it’s kind of silly — after all, the alternative to whole language is generally phonics, and middle and high school students should have a good handle on how to read [...]

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