New: Center Moves issue 5 is live!

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Apr 14, 2026, 8:54:11 AMApr 14

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Hi everyone,

The Center Moves Editors are thrilled to inform you that issue 5 of Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials is live!

We got some fantastic submissions on our two topics:

Working with Writers & Writing Across Disciplines

Analeigh E. Horton asks tutors to explore how they might already be or could be applying concepts that help writers transfer knowledge and skills to new genres.
Amanda M. May provides a structured worksheet that guides tutors’ and writers’ examination of disciplinary writing styles to identify important conventions to follow.
Coleman Numbers, Maren Sorber, Merlin Blanchard, Ben Christensen, and Zachary Largey specifically support tutors with humanities backgrounds by providing a narrative-structural framework to help tutors see how characteristics of STEM and humanities writing overlap with those in storytelling.
Carol Saalmueller offers a heuristic to make certain that tutors do not get lost in the details of unfamiliar genres, using flowchart heuristic to help tutors prioritize higher order concerns.

Checking in with Writers

Macy Dunklin and Daniel Mueller normalize moments where the tutor’s strategy is not working and position adaptability as a skill tutors can develop through guided reflection and practice.
Nichole E. Stanford recommends a coregulatory tutoring framework that not only names the emotional labor that tutors already perform, but also offers a structure that centers can intentionally support and develop to calm stressed-out writers and help them find paths forward.

Please check their work out!

Sincerely,

The Center Moves Editorial Board