Dr. Sharon Murchie (@smurchies) teaches English at Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan and is a teacher consultant for Red Cedar Writing Project and Chippewa River Writing Project. She earned her Doctorate in Educational Technology in 2019 from Central Michigan University and her Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Murchie is driven to promote and support critical thinking, advocating for the integration of technology in thoughtful and deliberate ways. The author of Teaching the Research Paper They Want to Write (Teacher’s Discovery, 2020), Dr. Murchie has also published articles in the Michigan Reading Journal and the Language Arts Journal of Michigan. She blogs personally at mandatoryamusings.blogspot.com and academically at sharonmurchie.wordpress.com.
