2018 CI Conference

Often, when we skim student writing, we look through negative, or deficit eyes—noticing instantly what’s wrong and what’s missing. Instead, Katherine demonstrates how we might approach responding to our student writing with awestruck eyes, noticing what unique gifts and strengths our students have and naming those hidden gems the way writers would, using language of a writer’s craft rather than rubric descriptions and scores. Students begin to feel like real apprentices learning an art.