Discipline Quote by Patty McGee

“Grading doesn’t make my students better writers. Lots of practice coupled with meaningful feedback makes my students better writers.”

— Kelly Gallagher

“I agree with Tom Romano (1987) when he says that the purpose of a grade for writing should be to reflect the growth that…

— Cynthia D. Urbanski

“What can we do, then, to recognize that yes, grading and its traditions are still present, but so is the writer? Feedback, not grades,…

— Patty McGee

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two…

— Rick Riordan

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students…

— Jill Biden

“the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent, a better…

— Roy Peter Clark

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

— Amitava Kumar

“If we think of grades as an opportunity to shine a light on what we value in the whole of writing and for the…

— Patty McGee

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

— Bobby Knight

...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works--…

— Libba Bray

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need to shout…

— Patty McGee