As a writing teacher, I knew that classroom culture was not something I could easily manipulate. Sure, I established classroom expectations and defined norms collaboratively with my students, and this had some influence on culture, but not as much as I had hoped it would. I provided feedback to my students about their actions and [...]
Tag Archives: Communities for Learning
Considering the Influence of Dispositions on Classroom or Community Culture
November 4, 2011 – 6:33 am
Asking the Right Questions of the Right People at the Right Time
November 2, 2011 – 6:19 am
This post is the fourth in a series relevant to the Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change ARCS Framework and how we make use of it in Studio. The first post offered an overview of the Framework as a whole and revisited previous posts about vision The second post began exploring the second dimension of [...]
Helping Our Youngest Writers Consider Representation
November 1, 2011 – 7:39 am
On Saturday, I shared the Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change ARCS Framework. Previous posts have spoken to the importance of vision, which has everything to do with the first dimension of the Framework: alignment. Yesterday I introduced the second dimension of the Framework: representation. I can attest to the fact that thinking about strategic [...]
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