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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)
08/09/23

When Kids Need Help With Fluency: 5 Things Teachers Can Do

Disfluent readers are most often disfluent because of a lack of practice with reading. Ultimately, struggling readers must have a lot of time to read at their instructional or independent level.  (continue reading)
07/18/23

“Reading Is Thinking!” When Kids Discover That They’re Understanding as They Read

Comprehension is not about spitting out facts and filling in blanks. Comprehension is about understanding. And reading is not merely about word calling. Reading is about thinking.  (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)
10/11/22

Nine Steps to Great Conferences

Conferring is the process of coming to know our children more intimately, of building reciprocal trust, and of plotting their learning path alongside them.  (continue reading)
12/02/21

Podcast: Developing a Mindset for Revision with Chris Hall and Ellin Keene

What if revision is something that happens in the mindset of the writer during the writing process? This is the question that Chris Hall answer in The Writer’s Mindset.  (continue reading)
03/10/20

PLC Series: Listening to Students as a Priority

Welcome to this month's PLC Series post! Each month, we'll share a post designed to provoke thinking and discussion through a simple framework, incorporating mini-collections of linked content. Use these as learning modules during your professional development time, whether in a team, a professional learning community (PLC), or on your own!  (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)
01/18/19

The Steps of A Math Conference

Conferring is built on learning what students are doing and how they are thinking. In the first stage of a math conference, the teachers looks, listens, and asks with the goal of building an interpretation of student thinking.  (continue reading)

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