Writing Before Writing?

 As all of us begin our school years shortly we know we will be modeling writing with students  each day. Can we squeeze in any writing ourselves before our time is consumed with learning names, organizing a classroom, attending meetings, and preparing lesson plans? Make it a routine to carve out some time during these last days of August and bring out those writing prompts you wanted to finish, or that poem you started at the retreat, or a memoir piece you wanted to write about your grandmother. It will remind you of that process before you introduce it again to students. It will also create a writing routine which is always so important as we try to keep writing. Just ten minutes.... begin!