Think It, Build It: An Architectural Approach to Essay Writing for Middle School Students (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781720439004)

Author Colleen Potocki has been teaching and writing for a long time. She taught middle school and high school English at The Roeper School, a co-educational PK-12 school for gifted students in Birmingham, Michigan, for sixteen years--interrupted briefly to teach composition and literature courses at Gulf Coast Community College where she received tenure. She spent one wonderful year at Seaside Middle School in Seaside, Florida where she met her good friend and fellow teacher Kim Mixson. She worked twelve years teaching Business Writing as a Special Lecturer at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Mrs. Potocki is currently the Head of Middle School at Community School of Naples, a PK-12 school dedicated to academic excellence. She still teaches middle school English. Mrs. Potocki loves teaching writing, so she does not plan to give it up. Mrs. Potocki has six children-five daughters and a son. She has worked hard in order to afford independent school tuition and college tuition for her children. She places a high value on quality education. Mrs. Potocki has a B.A. and M.A. in English from Oakland University and a M.Ed. in Independent School Leadership from Vanderbilt University. She is available to run Think It, Build It writing workshops for middle school teachers and/or students. She also offers writing workshops for school administrators, presenting a go-to writing process for administrative blogging that links routine communication and institutional advancement as a collaborative schema-underscoring that a school leader needs an effective, manageable, and creative approach to professional writing.