Tag: Evaluation
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What I learned doing NaNoWriMo
On Halloween I was like a kid waiting for Christmas. It wasn’t because I love Halloween, or because I was excited to play Christmas carols. It was because National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) started on November 1. During the month of November thousands of people around the world attempt to write a 50,000 word novel…
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Avoiding the Sprawl
A few times while I lived in Toronto I ventured outside the city. I was always struck by how much the GTA sprawled. There was nothing but buildings. The only way I could tell I was in a new city was the signs marking the boundaries. Where were the fields, or trees, or something between…
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When the Good Things End
Last night I had my final middle school program until the fall. It’s a group of students I love working with. They make me laugh, lose my voice, and want to pull my hair out – usually all in the same night. But it doesn’t change the anticipation I have when their program rolls around; I don’t…
Lauren van Vliet, author 