The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.
Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.
My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.