Matthew Johnson
@a2matthew
Teacher in search of equal parts balance and better practices. Writer for @CorwinPress and @Edutopia. Nose eternally in a book. Views are my own. I blog weekly@
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Friday, June 1 is your LAST DAY to register for Camp Rewrite this summer! Join hundreds of your closest ELA-teacher virtual friends for refreshing, honest learning to launch us into the next school year! Angela Stockman (she/her) Matthew Johnson
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There's still time to register for the 2023 #ERWC Literacy Conference! Did we mention that Carol Jago, Matthew Johnson, and Jen Roberts, NBCT will be presenters?
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So excited for @AfeniMills, whose her incredible TED-Ed talk dropped today. It is a gorgeous, wise, and inspiring talk that every educator and person should watch! Corwin Press ted.com/talks/afrika_a…
For those writing teachers looking for some interesting prompts to counter the end-of-the-year malaise, Jason Reynolds News's Write. Right. Rite. series is awesome! guides.loc.gov/jason-reynolds…
Learn more and register for Camp Rewrite, hosted by me, Rebekah O’Dell and Matthew Johnson with so many INCREDIBLE special guests: camprewrite.substack.com/p/camp-rewrite…
We are EXTENDING our early bird pricing for Camp Rewrite until MAY 15 to help teachers pursue funding for this professional learning experience! Matthew Johnson Angela Stockman (she/her)
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I am so excited to announce, in partnership with Rebekah O’Dell, Angela Stockman (she/her), and special guests like Matthew R. Kay Dave Stuart Jr. Kate Roberts @SarahMZerwin Shawna Coppola. M.Ed., Reading 🍉🇵🇸 Dr. Kari Roan, a summer professional learning camp that is unlike any other. Check it out! matthewmjohnson.com/2023/04/20/a-s…
Take a breath of fresh air + revise your teaching practice this summer with Matthew Johnson, @angelastockman, @rebekahodell1 and friends at CAMP REWRITE. movingwriters.org/2023/04/20/sum…
For today--the first 60 day since October--we are going to start with one of my favorite springtime poems, 'Instructions on Not Giving Up' from Poet Laureate Ada Limón #Poetrypauses Brett Vogelsinger
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Hi Twitter! I'm doing a project where I'm trying to gather as many go-to classroom articles, essays, and short texts as I can. What are a couple of your favorite classroom texts and mentor texts? Thanks in advance! National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Writing Project Rebekah O’Dell penny kittle Jennifer Fletcher
March and April tend to be some of the most grammar/rhetoric/language-heavy weeks of the school calendar as teachers get ready for spring testing. Here are some tips to help get your classes through the April grammar showers. matthewmjohnson.com/2023/03/28/its… Rebekah O’Dell Jennifer Fletcher
There are a lot of lukewarm ChatGPT takes out there, and then there is Matthew R. Kay’s, which is his normal brand of (not light, but) 🔥! A thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on how discussion and community will be all the more important in the AI era.
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Looking for more poetry in your life and your classroom? Then check out my interview with Brett Vogelsinger about his incredible new book Poetry Pauses. Corwin Press Rebekah O’Dell Annie Q. Syed penny kittle
matthewmjohnson.com/2023/03/14/pau…
When it comes to providing better and faster writing instruction, one of the most effective things we can do is also one the most overlooked: finding places to let students lead.
matthewmjohnson.com/2023/03/02/hav… National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Writing Project Tyler Rablin Cult of Pedagogy Jennifer Fletcher
Excited to contribute to Moving Writers with these three super-quick questions to ask students when they write:
1⃣ most impactful sentence + why?
2⃣ most meaningful word/phrase + why?
3⃣ give it a title—then explain reasoning
Norming these Q's ➡️ better writing culture