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12/06/17

Sneed B. Collard on The Beauty of Pairing Down

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)
10/23/17

Katherine Bomer on Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems Are Teachers

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)
10/17/17

How to Plan for Book Clubs in Middle School

How to Plan for Book Clubs in Middle School  (continue reading)
10/16/17

Tools Don't Teach, Teachers Do! Using Tools to Support Our Teaching & Teach to Independence

Building a strong workshop practice is similar to building a house. Doing it successfully takes the right tools.  (continue reading)
10/16/17

PLC Series: Focus on the Strengths of Your ELs

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)
10/11/17

Framing Science Learning With Coherent Science Stories

When we create overarching science story lines (science stories) for instruction, students are more likely to remember what we teach.  (continue reading)
10/11/17

View a clip from our Webinar Series with Colleen Cruz

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)
10/10/17

Teaching Middle School Reading Units of Study: Tips from the Authors

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)
10/06/17

Using an Editor's Mindset: An Origin Story

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)
10/03/17

PLC Series: Decentering Our Perceptions of Language

PLC Series: Decentering Our Perceptions of Language  (continue reading)

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