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Layered Writing

Posted on January 30, 2014 by classteaching

The 15 minute forum tonight was led by English teacher Gav McCusker. Gav has been developing a writing technique with his students, that he refers to as ‘layered writing’. The inspiration for this was from great painters. In order to … Continue reading →

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