Description

Mr. Lee Norment is in his 14th year at Maclay School and is the English Department Chair in our Upper School.  Mr. Norment is a student and alumni favorite and took over the leadership of a strong English and Literature Department years ago and has only led it to greater heights.  His leadership of collaboration and helping students find their voices as writers is an excellent example of how we teach our students to become uncommonly good writers.   Key thoughts: 

• Writing as a process – generating ideas, drafting, revising with the notion you will never write the perfect essay, but it is worth the effort.  
• Similar to other disciplines, the only way to get better at writing is to write... a lot!  
• As teachers, we focus on valuable feedback and helping our students find their voice.  
• Understanding your own writing process is the most important lesson to learn.  

Mr. Norment discusses how we try to get our students to look beyond the grade to the feedback.  This way, we are able to help them grow as writers and learn how we set a tone of determination to achieve a level of writing that allows our students to outperform peers once they take the next step to college.

Guests: Lee Norment

Hosted by:  James Milford

Thanks to David Low for show music - Acoustic Guitar, the Maclay School Alma Mater

Production and Editing by David Low and James Milford