Lauren OetingerOct 28, 20207 min readHere then was I: Making A Case for A Room of One's OwnIn 1928 Virginia Woolf was invited to speak at a women’s college on the topic of “women and fiction” which gave rise to her collection of...
Lauren OetingerOct 21, 20204 min readEmpowering StudentsEven in the age of social media it is easy to feel small and unseen. This is twice as true for my students who have very little control...
Lauren OetingerOct 19, 20205 min readGrades and Classroom CultureI hate grades. I hate everything about them -- giving them, hearing about them, the whole shabang. I cannot fathom the world my students...
Lauren OetingerOct 15, 20202 min readHaunted Language Graveyard Haunted Graveyard You know what’s scary? Cliches. Cliches are lazy writing -- that’s what I tell my students. They think cliches will...