Kenneth Rowland
Jan 16
I finally had a chance to visit the classrooms on Tuesday afternoon.
The highlight of my week so far was being part of the middle school writing marathon.
Gizmos and Making
The day before I started drafting the final chapter in a book I’m writing with a colleague on make, my 7th grade son came bounding out of school with a guitar pick he’d made on a 3-D printer. The assistant principal who was accompanying him was amused that my son had never used a 3-D printer considering the…
Writing takes many forms and comes from many different parts of one’s psyche. Writing also is done for many different reasons. On different days and in different circumstances, writers have different reasons for writing. But they write and they write for the reason that is…
The opinions expressed in this post are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of UNC Charlotte, National Writing Project, or the UNC Charlotte Writing Project.
There are days when I LOVE what I do.
What’s your why? “I don’t understand what that even means,” whispered a rising 2nd grader. He was one of a delightful group of summer campers attending the Young Writers’ Camp in July 2017. And that was our theme for two weeks. We explored activism, artivism, social justice…
Last week my sixth grader got suspended from school.
Yep, My Kid. Not the kid with the sketchy home life, not the kid who shows up with a bag of Sweet Sixteen Donuts for lunch, not the kid who wears shorts in the…
