Meet the teachers who developed Write Now Right Now
Darlene McPherson and Terry Hoit
We are real teachers with real students, having 40+ years of teaching experience at all grade levels. Based on our interactions with other teachers and students, and our personal successes and challenges in teaching writing, we have created a teacher-friendly, student engaging writing program which helps teachers mold confident, capable writers in all curricular areas!
“Write Now Right Now is an awesome writing curriculum! It is thorough and easy to implement in your everyday writing. I used to think that writing was one of the most difficult subjects to teach, but now I love it!”
During our time in the classroom, we developed a passion for teaching writing and found ourselves in leadership positions, helping teachers improve writing across all grades. Teaching in different parts of the country, we were both involved in similar trainings and experiences. In 2009, our paths finally crossed and we ended up teaching in the same school. Here we found a kindred writing spirit in each other.
Along with teaching in our own classrooms, we joined together to serve as the writing coaches in the building. More and more, we began to hear the same comments from teachers – I want my students to become proficient writers, but I don’t know what to do next. I would make writing a priority in my classroom, but I’m not sure how to help my students improve their writing. All I do is assign and assess writing, I never teach writing because I don't know how to do it!
It was in response to these comments, and the overwhelming need of students, that Write Now Right Now was born. Combining what we learned from best practices and research, and what we knew from working daily with both teachers and students, we began to put our lessons into a easy to follow format for teachers. Based on the philosophy that all students can write, we wrote a curriculum that works with any standards, is teacher friendly, and engaging to students. Our goal is to give teachers the tools that will enable all students to Write Now!