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01/10/24

Free Webinar: Help Students Learn from Mentor Authors

Watch this free edWebinar with Carl Anderson and Matt Glover, who show you what the immersion period of writing workshop looks and sounds like.  (continue reading)
11/01/23

What’s the Path to Becoming a Better Writing Teacher?

The goal of our new book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, is to help you become really good at teaching writing.  (continue reading)
09/27/23

How Do Teachers Get Better at Teaching Writing?

In our forthcoming book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, we focus on the question of how to help teachers become good writing teachers.  (continue reading)
05/05/23

How to Become A Better Writing Teacher

Student engagement is crucial for students to learn to write well. When students are engaged, they’re more likely to learn.  (continue reading)
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)
08/31/20

10 Tips for Conferring with Student Writers Online

Whether you are conferring face-to-face in classrooms, or virtually, conferring effectively requires several sets of skills. Learn what they are on the blog.  (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)
12/03/18

Conferring to Receive and Give Feedback

Feedback is key to student learning. Since writing conferences are conversations between students and teachers, they provide opportunities for two types of feedback: student to teacher, and teacher to student.  (continue reading)
10/17/18

Inviting Students to Talk About Their Writing

Begin conferences by asking students an open-minded question that invites them to talk about what they're doing as writers.  (continue reading)
10/03/18

What Is a Writing Conference?

When you ask the question, 'How’s it going?' at the beginning of writing conferences, you’re doing much more than inviting students to talk about what they’re doing as writers. The question initiates your relationship with each student and deepens each of these relationships.  (continue reading)

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