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04/11/22

Focus on One Essential Teaching Practice

A fresh look at foundational, student-centered practices for pre-service and veteran teachers.  (continue reading)
10/13/21

Jen Serravallo on Increasing Instructional Impact with Small Groups

Grow the efficiency of your teaching with small groups, and you’ll provide highly tailored instruction to more students each day.  (continue reading)
09/15/21

Jen Serravallo on Conferring to Meet Students Where They Are and Spur Progress

When conferring, align your teaching with crucial research on what works. It will give your students the boost they need to move forward throughout the year.  (continue reading)
01/21/20

Conference And Small Group Note Taking Made Doable

Jennifer Serravallo shares some of her best quick and helpful tips for taking notes during reading conferences and small group work.  (continue reading)
02/28/19

Podcast: Modeling Conferences as Conversations with Katie Wood Ray, Jennifer Serravallo, and Carl Anderson

Katie Wood Ray interviews Carl Anderson and Jenifer Serravallo, who both recently published two conferring books in Heinemann’s Classroom Essentials Series.  (continue reading)
02/25/19

Understanding What Readers Know and Need

An Assessment Conference offers you a little time to study a reader along a number of different dimensions, considering a variety of possible goals.  (continue reading)
02/15/19

Explore the Online Resources for A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences!

In the online resources for A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences, you will find a variety of note-taking forms and other documents that will help you get started implementing—or refining—reading conferences right away in your classroom.  (continue reading)
02/08/19

Jennifer Serravallo Shares Her Latest Thinking on Conferring

I still believe that conferring is where the magic happens—it’s the heartbeat of the literacy block. It’s an essential time for teachers to meet with students, tailor instruction to their individual goals, provide them with meaningful feedback, and grow relationships.  (continue reading)
01/31/19

Podcast: A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences with Jennifer Serravallo

Today on the Heinemann podcast Jennifer Serravallo introduces A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, which is part of Heinemann’s Classroom Essentials series. Jen says that while conferring with readers might seem intimidating or out of reach, it is attainable -and necessary- in every classroom.  (continue reading)
01/22/19

Making Conferring Manageable

When you confer, you tailor your instruction to each student’s strengths and needs. But you do so much more than that. Conferring is where the magic happens. It’s the heartbeat of the literacy block.  (continue reading)

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