Providing easy tips to help busy parents and night college students with ways to quickly write essays
AUDRA DUVALL, PhD (ah-druh dooh-vahl)
Dr. Duvall has a BA in Theater Arts and English. She was awarded a Master of Arts in Education degree in Instructional Technology. Her PhD is in K-12 Leadership in Administration and her dissertation work foci stems from mentorship and motivation. She has spent 16 years as a secondary communications teacher (in the realms of theater arts direction, English
04/05/2017
Note-Taking Is Becoming a Lost Art, So I Decided to Do Something About It Ten minutes into class, the PowerPoint is on the Smartboard and I’m animated as I discuss the different types of figurative language and their uses. My students are actively engaged, sure, but something is missing. Not one single student is …
03/29/2017
Write what you know: write with honesty.
Pain & Art: Write What You Honestly Know | Ryan Gattis | TEDxChapmanU When a gang lord told novelist Ryan Gattis to cut to the chase, he did. Surprising to the Chapman University professor was that the command was also a gift t...
03/12/2017
The Kit.
07/27/2016
Hmmmm....
Once all but left for dead, is cursive handwriting making a comeback? Reports of the handwriting style’s demise might be exaggerated as it has displayed a gritty staying power.
07/27/2016
Visual learning...
Making Learning Visible: Doodling Helps Memories Stick Schools are teaching sketchnoting as an innovative way to help students synthesize information that's important. Doodlers are making connections from what they hear to what they draw.
07/20/2016
Admitting You Were Wrong Doesn't Make You Weak -- It Makes You Awesome! It takes tremendous fortitude to utter the words “I was wrong, and I am sorry”. I love that word: fortitude. I could list the dictionary definition of fortitude, but let’s be honest, why go to that trouble when Bill Gates blessed us with Microsoft Word’s single click to see its synonyms, [...]
07/18/2016
Ceremony is incredibly important with respect to making things 'sticky' and intrinsic in a life - so much more so when they are young and impressionable.
How Writing Down Specific Goals Can Empower Struggling Students Goal-setting closed achievement gaps in a recent experiment. The key element? Students put their thoughts in writing.
07/06/2016
How books can open your mind What happens when a dream you've held since childhood … doesn't come true? As Lisa Bu adjusted to a new life in the United States, she turned to books to expand her mind and create a new path for herself. She shares her unique approach to reading in this lovely, personal talk about the magic of book...
07/02/2016
Are You Up for the No Grades Challenge? Teacher Starr Sackstein shares her success with eliminating grading in her classroom and encourages teachers to also take on the challenge.
07/01/2016
Do not give up!
06/21/2016
Blast from the past... 2009
HeyEssayVideo.wmv "The Zealot..." Warning: Lots of voice and blurry hand-movements (circa 2009). Dr. Audra L. Duvall speaking about how she came up with "Hey, Essay!" 1.Are th...
06/10/2016
2Essays are stupid part 2 How to complete the introduction... which is stupid, two (...see what I did there?).
