One of the biggest lessons we learned as a team of teacher-researchers in Michigan is that the scaffolding and teaching of “digital writing” begins before anyone gets on a computer. In this post, we’d like to share a story about how we, as a team of teacher-researchers, came to understand the importance of building classroom communities that support students as they write together in both digital and physical spaces. Who we are and where we teach We are a team of three urban educators who teach in a suburb of Detroit. Oak Park High School is located just over a…
Author: Sarah Weaver
Katie Locano, Sarah Weaver, Laura Gonzales, Peter Haun
Sarah is an 11th grade English teacher at Oak Park High School, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Sarah has been teaching in the urban setting for 10 years and is a consultant for the Oakland Writing Project.