Thanks, Cathy, for the referral to Richard Kent's book. I'm ordering it frm Amazon tomorrow--we use an Amazon Visa for household and travel expenses to get the bonus points for books and I think we've got enough points to order this book! I googled his name and "Writing Centers" and found a great article by him at <http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxix/?+book/print/121>
May, you might be interested in this article, too. I especially like the idea of training some of our fluently writing 8th graders next year to work as student "writing coaches." We're pretty close to two high schools--reckon some juniors and seniors could staff the center? I'm pretty jazzed about this and think I'll write a grant to the local Education Foundation to support it. I'd like to get a cart of AlphaSmarts or Danas with a printer to use for the program. No need to tie up the computer lab since space is so limited in my over-crowded building. Looks like I'll need to convince my principal to build some writing center time into our schedule--maybe a rotating study hall period? 'Twill be hard with a 4X4 block schedule, but I'd like to convince him to take a risk such as scheduling some classes for 45 minutes daily instead of 90 min. alternating days...such a bold move would make him a paragon among principals, none of whom currently understand scheduling.... Bev Maddox, Rhetorically minded in Little Rock "I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody." --L. Tomlin _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
