The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

I’m not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it’s a big difference.
BARRY LANE

Differences Golf Practice
Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
BARRY LANE

Hands Play Toddler
All writing begins in the sea of experience.
BARRY LANE

Begin Experience Sea Writing
My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
BARRY LANE

Feds Reader Vision
Writers don’t need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.
BARRY LANE

Given Needs Possibilities
The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.
BARRY LANE

Quality School Writing

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