I Am the Boss of THIS! Cultivating Ownership in Writing

Title:
I Am the Boss of THIS! Cultivating Ownership in Writing

With:
Danielle Hardt & Dr. Jevon Hunter

Date:
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Time:
6-7:30 pm

Location:
Online, via ZOOM

Registration: Click here to Register

About:
As middle and high school teachers, getting students to reflect upon themselves and own their writing is a significant part of our classroom work. Using Jason Reynolds’, Look Both Ways as a model, this session uses a new, creative identity framework that flexes with varying texts, ushers middle and high school students past superficial comprehension of characters toward a more scrupulous analysis of the social, emotional, intellectual, and moral strengths each one possesses. Then, as a way of having youth reflect upon their identity, we will illustrate how this same framework can help empower students through multimodal writing as they determine who they are socially, emotionally, intellectually, and morally – permitting our young people to take steps to towards cultivating ownership in critical thinking and writing.

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