Chad PettitHow to Recover from BurnoutRediscovering Your Passion Through Self-Reflection and ActionMay 30, 2023May 30, 2023
Chad PettitHow To Move On From TraumaWhy you’re worthy of recovering and how you matterMay 29, 2023May 29, 2023
Chad PettitThe Lies Trauma Tells YouI think I was almost a year into therapy before I got past the lies my ego had convinced me of enough to deal with my underlying trauma…May 28, 20233May 28, 20233
Chad PettitHow I’m Recovering from TraumaIf you would’ve told me two years ago, I’d be escorted home in the middle of the school day, I would’ve laughed and said, “no way. Not…May 27, 20231May 27, 20231
Chad PettitHOW TO ASSESS STUDENT GROWTH IN WRITING: GOING TO W.A.R. WITH GRADINGI’ve never met anyone who enjoyed grading papers. Never. Sure, some teachers have their systems in place and their routines down pat so…Dec 4, 2022Dec 4, 2022
Chad PettitWHY WE MUST STOP TEACHING THE FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAYI couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was 35, sitting in a senior-level college course, and the professor was teaching the basic…Dec 4, 2022Dec 4, 2022
Chad PettitHow To Grade Without Burning OutGetting Informative Assessment without the Burnout of GradingDec 4, 2022Dec 4, 2022
Chad PettitHow to Get Students to Write: Intrinsic Motivation, Choice, and VoiceImagine yourself as the student in your class. The teacher is in front of the class, introducing a writing assignment, a project, or a…Jun 5, 2022Jun 5, 2022
Chad PettitHow to Assess Student Writing: Reframing the ConversationIn this post, I discuss transferring authority of student writing back to the student and how to teach writing rhetorically and…Jun 5, 2022Jun 5, 2022