Deanna Mascle
@deannamascle.bsky.social
I write. I teach. I lead a National Writing Project site. https://deannamascle.com/
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Deanna Mascle
@deannamascle.bsky.social
· Sep 18
This week my students are polishing their American Creeds in a This I Believe format and we agree that we very much need these shared values at this time.
This I Believe: Using American Creed as a mentor text starts us off write : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/this-i-belie...
This I Believe: Using American Creed as a mentor text starts us off write : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/this-i-belie...
How do you measure growth and set goals in your classroom? How do you help your students measure their own growth and set their own goals?
Writer, Thinker, Human: How do you measure growth and set goals? : Metawriting
This week Kentucky has been plagued by tornadoes, thunderstorms, and the rain continues to pour as floodwaters rise. Our Eastern...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How do you measure growth and set goals in your classroom? How do you help your students measure their own growth and set their own goals?
My goal is to design a class that takes my students on a learning journey as humans, writers, and critical thinkers and my bottom line is for us all to survive that journey.
Creating a Joyfully Authentic Community : Metawriting
What’s Really New? Today I am logging in grades, handing out certificates, and reading the reflections and community celebrations for...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My goal is to design a class that takes my students on a learning journey as humans, writers, and critical thinkers and my bottom line is for us all to survive that journey.
I cannot fix America. I cannot fix my own brain let alone the brains of my students. But I can make my classes about creation and curation rather than consumption. metawriting.deannamascle.com/something-un...
Unique, meaningful, and fun : Metawriting
There really is nothing I love more about teaching than writing with my students. I build my first year writing...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I cannot fix America. I cannot fix my own brain let alone the brains of my students. But I can make my classes about creation and curation rather than consumption. metawriting.deannamascle.com/something-un...
We learn from our failures and mistakes and schools need to be much more about that kind of learning – especially in the writing classroom. This is my hill. metawriting.deannamascle.com/capitalism-a...
Capitalism, AI, and Creativity : Metawriting
What’s New? As I read final essays and reports on final projects and final reflections, I am glad that I...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We learn from our failures and mistakes and schools need to be much more about that kind of learning – especially in the writing classroom. This is my hill. metawriting.deannamascle.com/capitalism-a...
How do you measure growth and set goals in your classroom? How do you help your students measure their own growth and set their own goals? metawriting.deannamascle.com/writer-think...
Writer, Thinker, Human: How do you measure growth and set goals? : Metawriting
This week Kentucky has been plagued by tornadoes, thunderstorms, and the rain continues to pour as floodwaters rise. Our Eastern...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
How do you measure growth and set goals in your classroom? How do you help your students measure their own growth and set their own goals? metawriting.deannamascle.com/writer-think...
My goal is to design a class that takes my students on a learning journey as humans, writers, and critical thinkers and my bottom line is for us all to survive that journey. metawriting.deannamascle.com/creating-a-j...
Creating a Joyfully Authentic Community : Metawriting
What’s Really New? Today I am logging in grades, handing out certificates, and reading the reflections and community celebrations for...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My goal is to design a class that takes my students on a learning journey as humans, writers, and critical thinkers and my bottom line is for us all to survive that journey. metawriting.deannamascle.com/creating-a-j...
My praxis focuses on showing my students the ways that writers think and act because my focus is helping students develop as writers while also developing tools they need to continue that growth after they leave my classroom.
Reflective Feedback Loops : Metawriting
What’s Really New? Last week my students began drafting their rhetorical analysis essays and this week we will work on...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My praxis focuses on showing my students the ways that writers think and act because my focus is helping students develop as writers while also developing tools they need to continue that growth after they leave my classroom.
We learn from our failures and mistakes and schools need to be much more about that kind of learning – especially in the writing classroom. This is my hill. metawriting.deannamascle.com/capitalism-a...
Capitalism, AI, and Creativity : Metawriting
What’s New? As I read final essays and reports on final projects and final reflections, I am glad that I...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We learn from our failures and mistakes and schools need to be much more about that kind of learning – especially in the writing classroom. This is my hill. metawriting.deannamascle.com/capitalism-a...
Just a reminder that abortion is healthcare and those healthcare providers do so much more. People die and suffer when we give anti-abortion politicians their way.
pca.st/episode/d269...
pca.st/episode/d269...
Republicans targeted abortion providers. Some Mainers lost primary care
pca.st
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just a reminder that abortion is healthcare and those healthcare providers do so much more. People die and suffer when we give anti-abortion politicians their way.
pca.st/episode/d269...
pca.st/episode/d269...
students reported over and over that the writing was interesting to them because it was about their lives metawriting.deannamascle.com/what-if-we-t...
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
students reported over and over that the writing was interesting to them because it was about their lives metawriting.deannamascle.com/what-if-we-t...
My praxis focuses on showing my students the ways that writers think and act because my focus is helping students develop as writers while also developing tools they need to continue that growth after they leave my classroom. metawriting.deannamascle.com/reflective-f...
Reflective Feedback Loops : Metawriting
What’s Really New? Last week my students began drafting their rhetorical analysis essays and this week we will work on...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My praxis focuses on showing my students the ways that writers think and act because my focus is helping students develop as writers while also developing tools they need to continue that growth after they leave my classroom. metawriting.deannamascle.com/reflective-f...
what if awkwardness isn’t a flaw to fix but a window into how we live together?
pca.st/episode/dc1d...
pca.st/episode/dc1d...
You’re not awkward — the world is.
pca.st
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
what if awkwardness isn’t a flaw to fix but a window into how we live together?
pca.st/episode/dc1d...
pca.st/episode/dc1d...
students reported over and over that the writing was interesting to them because it was about their lives metawriting.deannamascle.com/what-if-we-t...
What If We Told the Story of Our Values : Metawriting
What’s New? This year I kept the same structure for my What If Unit but switched in some new poems...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
students reported over and over that the writing was interesting to them because it was about their lives metawriting.deannamascle.com/what-if-we-t...
Facebook profits off our pain. Color me shocked.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
How Meta Profits Off Fraud
pca.st
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Facebook profits off our pain. Color me shocked.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
Crafting in Community : Metawriting
What’s New? This semester I am teaching on a M-W-F schedule for the first time in decades but as a...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle.
Writing Into Community : Metawriting
What’s New? Now that we are in our second week of writing the stories of our lives I love changing...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle.
A group of National Guard members in Ohio are using an encrypted group chat to work out how they're feeling as President Trump deploys Guard troops to several U.S. cities.
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
'Is this really happening?' National Guard Members on Trump Deployments
pca.st
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A group of National Guard members in Ohio are using an encrypted group chat to work out how they're feeling as President Trump deploys Guard troops to several U.S. cities.
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
The number of billionaires is growing. So is the call to abolish them.
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
The billionaire backlash
pca.st
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The number of billionaires is growing. So is the call to abolish them.
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
Another rightwing project to reshape truth.
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
pca.st
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Another rightwing project to reshape truth.
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
Crafting in Community : Metawriting
What’s New? This semester I am teaching on a M-W-F schedule for the first time in decades but as a...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
I will bitterly miss this community of writers metawriting.deannamascle.com/wrapping-wri...
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I will bitterly miss this community of writers metawriting.deannamascle.com/wrapping-wri...
...every day of this What If journey has been so much fun as I watch my students create and innovate. This is what teaching writing and rhetoric should be like all the time. metawriting.deannamascle.com/low-stakes-w...
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
...every day of this What If journey has been so much fun as I watch my students create and innovate. This is what teaching writing and rhetoric should be like all the time. metawriting.deannamascle.com/low-stakes-w...
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle. metawriting.deannamascle.com/writing-into...
Writing Into Community : Metawriting
What’s New? Now that we are in our second week of writing the stories of our lives I love changing...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle. metawriting.deannamascle.com/writing-into...