Let’s talk about Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style cuts – hacking off large sections of your manuscript to make it better. How do you know where to begin? (continue reading)
As if the wealth of Amy’s own writing and teaching ideas were not enough by themselves, she gifts us with a trove of poems by our favorite children’s poets. (continue reading)
How can we reframe our thinking about our English learners in ways that embrace their strengths, honor their first language(s), and hold them to high, intellectual standards? (continue reading)
When we create overarching science story lines (science stories) for instruction, students are more likely to remember what we teach. (continue reading)
Our first live webinar session with Colleen Cruz was packed with thinking about a mindset for teaching writing, strategies to guide repetitive student writing, mirror writing, and more! (continue reading)
Teachers of middle school reading have their own, unique set of challenges. Some of these hopes for middle school readers might resonate with you: (continue reading)
In Back and Forth: Using and Editor's Mindset to Improve Student Writing, Lee Heffernan encourages teachers to go from giving writing feedback to students as their teacher, to giving feedback as stude (continue reading)