Deanna Mascle
@deannamascle.bsky.social
I write. I teach. I lead a National Writing Project site. https://deannamascle.com/
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Deanna Mascle
@deannamascle.bsky.social
· Sep 18
This week my students are polishing their American Creeds in a This I Believe format and we agree that we very much need these shared values at this time.
This I Believe: Using American Creed as a mentor text starts us off write : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/this-i-belie...
This I Believe: Using American Creed as a mentor text starts us off write : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/this-i-belie...
My praxis focuses on showing my students the ways that writers think and act because my focus is helping students develop as writers while also developing tools they need to continue that growth after they leave my classroom. metawriting.deannamascle.com/reflective-f...
Reflective Feedback Loops : Metawriting
What’s Really New? Last week my students began drafting their rhetorical analysis essays and this week we will work on...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My praxis focuses on showing my students the ways that writers think and act because my focus is helping students develop as writers while also developing tools they need to continue that growth after they leave my classroom. metawriting.deannamascle.com/reflective-f...
what if awkwardness isn’t a flaw to fix but a window into how we live together?
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You’re not awkward — the world is.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
what if awkwardness isn’t a flaw to fix but a window into how we live together?
pca.st/episode/dc1d...
pca.st/episode/dc1d...
students reported over and over that the writing was interesting to them because it was about their lives metawriting.deannamascle.com/what-if-we-t...
What If We Told the Story of Our Values : Metawriting
What’s New? This year I kept the same structure for my What If Unit but switched in some new poems...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
students reported over and over that the writing was interesting to them because it was about their lives metawriting.deannamascle.com/what-if-we-t...
Facebook profits off our pain. Color me shocked.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
How Meta Profits Off Fraud
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November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Facebook profits off our pain. Color me shocked.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta has a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point.
pca.st/episode/e7db...
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
Crafting in Community : Metawriting
What’s New? This semester I am teaching on a M-W-F schedule for the first time in decades but as a...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle.
Writing Into Community : Metawriting
What’s New? Now that we are in our second week of writing the stories of our lives I love changing...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle.
A group of National Guard members in Ohio are using an encrypted group chat to work out how they're feeling as President Trump deploys Guard troops to several U.S. cities.
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
'Is this really happening?' National Guard Members on Trump Deployments
pca.st
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A group of National Guard members in Ohio are using an encrypted group chat to work out how they're feeling as President Trump deploys Guard troops to several U.S. cities.
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
It’s become a place for existential questions about their service, careers…and country.
pca.st/episode/9120...
The number of billionaires is growing. So is the call to abolish them.
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
The billionaire backlash
pca.st
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The number of billionaires is growing. So is the call to abolish them.
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
Maybe because they keep rigging the system in their favor while destroying the world.
pca.st/episode/4442...
Another rightwing project to reshape truth.
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
pca.st
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Another rightwing project to reshape truth.
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”
pca.st/episode/222b...
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
Crafting in Community : Metawriting
What’s New? This semester I am teaching on a M-W-F schedule for the first time in decades but as a...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week
I will bitterly miss this community of writers metawriting.deannamascle.com/wrapping-wri...
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I will bitterly miss this community of writers metawriting.deannamascle.com/wrapping-wri...
...every day of this What If journey has been so much fun as I watch my students create and innovate. This is what teaching writing and rhetoric should be like all the time. metawriting.deannamascle.com/low-stakes-w...
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
...every day of this What If journey has been so much fun as I watch my students create and innovate. This is what teaching writing and rhetoric should be like all the time. metawriting.deannamascle.com/low-stakes-w...
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle. metawriting.deannamascle.com/writing-into...
Writing Into Community : Metawriting
What’s New? Now that we are in our second week of writing the stories of our lives I love changing...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This morning a conversation reminded me of another really important benefit of this writing ritual - reminding the members of our community that we are not alone and that all humans struggle. metawriting.deannamascle.com/writing-into...
Yesterday was a delightful day of writing and sharing with my students because we used poetry to inspire us!
How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...
How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Yesterday was a delightful day of writing and sharing with my students because we used poetry to inspire us!
How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...
How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week metawriting.deannamascle.com/crafting-in-...
Crafting in Community : Metawriting
What’s New? This semester I am teaching on a M-W-F schedule for the first time in decades but as a...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week metawriting.deannamascle.com/crafting-in-...
diving deep into what makes tribal colleges unique — and what these spaces mean to the students, faculty and staff who work there
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pca.st/episode/6d86...
Tribal colleges are a unique resource — and they're under threat
pca.st
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
diving deep into what makes tribal colleges unique — and what these spaces mean to the students, faculty and staff who work there
pca.st/episode/6d86...
pca.st/episode/6d86...
I will bitterly miss this community of writers metawriting.deannamascle.com/wrapping-wri...
Wrapping Write : Metawriting
What’s New? As I wrap up yet another year of teaching it is bittersweet. I will write with my first...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I will bitterly miss this community of writers metawriting.deannamascle.com/wrapping-wri...
...every day of this What If journey has been so much fun as I watch my students create and innovate. This is what teaching writing and rhetoric should be like all the time. metawriting.deannamascle.com/low-stakes-w...
Low-Stakes Writing Practice: Snaps and Artifacts : Metawriting
What’s Really New? This week my first year writing classes kicked off our What If unit and today I started planning for next...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
...every day of this What If journey has been so much fun as I watch my students create and innovate. This is what teaching writing and rhetoric should be like all the time. metawriting.deannamascle.com/low-stakes-w...
What do you want to manifest in your life and/or the world?
Create in 2025 : Metawriting
What’s New? How have I lived up to Create in 2025? I have written with my students and the Rebel...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What do you want to manifest in your life and/or the world?
Yesterday was a delightful day of writing and sharing with my students because we used poetry to inspire us! metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...
How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting
What’s Really New? This week my first year writers used What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yesterday was a delightful day of writing and sharing with my students because we used poetry to inspire us! metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...
What can the 1929 stock market crash teach us today? This week, Andrew Ross Sorkin unpacks his book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash In Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, drawing on eight years of research and access to never-before-seen historical documents.
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pca.st/episode/cbc2...
The 1929 Stock Market Crash: Can It Happen Again? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)
pca.st
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What can the 1929 stock market crash teach us today? This week, Andrew Ross Sorkin unpacks his book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash In Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, drawing on eight years of research and access to never-before-seen historical documents.
pca.st/episode/cbc2...
pca.st/episode/cbc2...
If my students walk out of my class at the end of the semester feeling and acting like writers, like creators, then I chalk that up as a win.
Do you want your students to consume, curate, or create? : Metawriting
What’s New? Not AI. AI has been around for a long time, but the forces of capitalism have just leaned...
metawriting.deannamascle.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
If my students walk out of my class at the end of the semester feeling and acting like writers, like creators, then I chalk that up as a win.
The Feminine Draw of Contemporary Conspiracy (Culture Study with Anne Helen Petersen)
pca.st
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
We use “Orwellian” to describe everything from campus dust-ups to authoritarian crackdowns. But what did George Orwell actually stand for, what did he get wrong, and what can we learn from him about our age of surveillance capitalism and distraction?
pca.st/episode/9dc5...
pca.st/episode/9dc5...
Truth in an age of doublethink
pca.st
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We use “Orwellian” to describe everything from campus dust-ups to authoritarian crackdowns. But what did George Orwell actually stand for, what did he get wrong, and what can we learn from him about our age of surveillance capitalism and distraction?
pca.st/episode/9dc5...
pca.st/episode/9dc5...