I thought this was a response worth sharing.  I validates why I do the assignment. Miss A, thank you so much for letting us have another freedom writing journal, the first was very helpful to me because I needed to express myself in writing instead of going to my 7th period and start making my friend [...]

After chatting with a colleague online and reading some of your comments about teaching strategies etc, I realized that maybe I’ve been to restrictive with my students.  Maybe I haven’t been providing them with the inspiration and motivation they need to be successful in my classroom.  So, a couple a weeks ago, I started having [...]