This document discusses using a daily writing practice called Proprioceptive Writing with middle school students to help them regulate emotions and develop social and academic skills. It proposes collecting data on students' academic writing and surveys/interviews to study the impact of this approach. Key variables that may influence the results are the specific grade level, classroom setting, and individual student challenges. Sources referenced discuss using writing to heal trauma and promote expression.

1. EXPLORING Proprioceptive Writing in a Middle School Classroom Brenda C Western Mass Writing Project Summer Institute 2007 Inquiry Project/Action Research Plan

2. Can a daily writing practice based on Proprioceptive Writing help children regulate emotions in order to master social and academic skills?

3. “ The single most influential element in producing writer’s block is some undisclosed trauma, of whatever magnitude” (MacCurdy 19)

5. “… unhealed wounds and undeveloped souls will thwart the smartest curriculum” (James Moffett as qtd. In The Mind’s Eye , p. 15)

8. If you bring forth what is within you, What you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, What you do not bring forth will destroy you. GNOSTIC GOSPEL OF THOMAS (qtd. In In the Mind’s Eye, 10)