Last night I spent time with the Eastern Michigan Writing Project #nwp and we talked about a few things.

1. English classrooms do not look like other classrooms. Students are not all doing the same things: we are making art out of the individual ingredients of our lives. 2. When we write what we ask our students to write we find the blind corners in our planning--can project where some of the problems will be for students. Teacher writing is not extra; it's essential.