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1,000,000

Ruth Ayres

Yesterday we hit a new milestone on Two Writing Teachers — over ONE MILLION hits!  Thank you for your support and encouragement.

In honor of one million, would you take a minute to leave a comment with your general location, as well as your job title?  I thought it would be neat to see the truly diverse community we all are a part of in this online space.

So whether you regularly leave comments or have never left one, will you leave one today? We appreciate you and would like you to be recognized as a reader!

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96 thoughts on “1,000,000”

  1. Congratulations Guys,
    I’m in the home security business.
    I paw through your blog while I woof down my food during lunch. Lot’s of great ideas that gets my tail wag’n. congrats.
    Indianapolis, IN —

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  3. I think of your website as a community of educators striving to make each other better teachers and our students better writers. I am grateful to be part of it.

    Jessica 7th Grade Language Arts

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  4. Congratulations, Ladies! You are an inspiration. I teach second grade in Torrance, CA (about 20 miles south of Los Angeles)

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  6. I love this blog and share often with my colleagues. I am a district level Curriculum Coordinator for LA/SS K-8 in Bedford, NH.

    Thank you both for all of your hard work and great ideas!

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  9. I am a reading specialist and the curriculum coordinator for a PreK-8 school district in Stewartsville, NJ. Just started reading your blog about a week ago, and I am very much looking forward to reading your book. Congratulations on your publication!

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  11. I am a sixth grade language arts teacher at Versailles, Ohio, a small rural school district north of Dayton, Ohio. LOVE your blog. (Will try to comment more.) I enjoy Words That Are Speaking to Me…use some of them in class and have tweaked the idea to use in my classroom. My students look for quotes in their own reading.

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  12. I enjoy your posts every morning over a cup of coffee before I head off to teach 7th grade writing workshop in northwest Indiana. Thanks!

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  13. I’m an assistant principal & literacy coach at an intermediate school (4/5) in Middlebury, IN. I’ve been a long-time follower and have learned much from you! Congrats and thanks!

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  16. I’m a middle school teacher in Ontario, Canada. I’ve been reading your blog for over a year now and have left a few comments here and there -usually when you write the ‘Words That are Speaking to Me’ posts.
    Thanks for the wonderful words and the rich resources.

    Mardie

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  20. Canadian teaching Grade 5 in Bangkok, Thailand
    Have been loving your blog for about a year. I got my last class “slice of lifing” in the second semester and plan to do it again this year!
    Thanks for all your ideas and hard work–I appreciate it even though I’m not a commenter.

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  26. Mrs. Moyer
    Just discovered your website, recommended by the Two sisters from Daily 5, and look forward to learning from you! I’m language arts specialist in elementary, so will share with several teachers.

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  27. Just found your site – love it!
    Previewed many pages of your new book with Stenhouse – looks like it will be on my shelf very soon. Congrats!

    Reading Specialist, teaching K-6 Resource in the East Bay, California.

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  29. I teach 2nd grade in Springfield, Illinois. Thanks to you we now focus our narrative essays to small moment/slice-of-life writing. We also just completed a quick look poetry unit, but will try more throughout the year finishing with a Poem in Your Pocket Day! Thanks!

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  31. I am a 3rd grade teacher in Milwaukee, WI. Congratulations on your 1,000,000 hit. That is amazing! There are so many of us in America, striving, ever striving to become even better at our craft. If you have not seen “Waiting for Superman” I would urge you to take the time to see it. Although there are wonderful and inspiring parts, there are also sad, horrible parts. None of it will really surprise you because almost all of us have seen some it in our own buildings.

    Thank you for the creation of a spot for teachers to commiserate, but also to celebrate!

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  33. I’m a 7th/8th grade teacher with an online school – I teach 8th grade math, but I love writing and love your website – so many good ideas that I’m filing away for someday when I get to teach writing! I live In Sparks, NV.

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  35. Coming to you from a North Suburban town of Chicago! Congrats to you. I am a first timer to your site, but will now be sharing it with my third grade colleagues!

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  36. Congrats on the million hits and your book!!! I love everything that you both do…you motivate and inspire me! I teach 6th grade in Westchester, NY!

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  37. I teach third grade at a Lutheran School in Southern Ca…I don’t miss a day visiting your blog! I am also reading your book on Stenhouse and can tell already that I will be purchasing it! Congrats on your success!

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  43. I teach sixth grade language arts, writing workshop and social studies. Thank you Stacey for all the inspiration and support “Two Writing” provides teachers everywhere every day!!

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  51. I live outside Ponca City, Ok and teach first grade in a small rural school. You have inspired me to start my own blog. Maybe one day I’ll make it to 10 hits! lol I find it hard to find the the time to write, and have what I feel are relative posts…so I keep reading yours!

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  52. I teach in Clarkston, Michigan and this year (for just one year) I am the Educational Technology Specialist for my elementary building. Last year I taught a 2/3 split.

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  60. Congrats! I am currently a substitute teacher in a small town in Greene County, Pennsylvania. I taught six years in Jacksonville, Florida in second and third grade. I love teahching reading and writing! I hope to one day have my own classroom again and incorporate some of you ideas. I love teaching and I also love learning new ways to reach every student!

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  61. I currently teach 6th grade in Omaha, NE, but in the past 5 years have taught in Seattle, Los Angeles and Switzerland. Congrats and keep posting!

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  65. I’m a 6th Grade ELA/Social Studies teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District. Just stumbled onto your blog several days ago, and have been checking posts regularly since. I like to think I was one million!

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  66. @Elsie: We’re looking forward to its release too. The book should be back from the publisher this-coming November. However, I don’t know when it will be shipping. My guess is that you should have it a week or two later. If you want to be sure, you could always contact Stenhouse at their office in Portland, ME.

    Thanks for your support and kind words.

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  71. I am a retired Reading Recovery/Title 1 teacher who now works for the Missouri Reading Initiative. The Initiative provides professional development on balanced literacy to schools in Missouri. As a reading Title teacher for 20 years I did not work with writing as a process, so you have helped me understand writing workshop for the last 3 years. I promote your blog to every school I work in. I am impatiently waiting for my preordered book . . . how much longer??? Congratulations and keep up the great information!

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  72. I am a friend of Stacey’s, but I am also a high school math teacher in Boiling Springs, PA. I enjoy reading your site and am getting new ideas, even in a high school math classroom!

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  74. I currently teach 5th grade in Georgia. I check in with your blog on a daily basis. LOVE all of the great ideas for writing 🙂 Thanks for your hard work.

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  76. I teach 5th grade in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. I discovered your blog this summer. Thanks for the inspiration and ideas! Pre-ordered your book last week — excited to read it!

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  77. Stacy and Ruth – Congratulations on this and your new book! I met Stacy this summer at TC; so excited for both of you. I’m in SF/Bay Area, coaching and teaching preservice teachers. Really looking forward to sharing your book.

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  81. I am a literacy coach at an independent school in Denver, Colorado. Your ideas are so valuable & it’s nice to know you’re there!

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  83. I am an elementary academic coach in Sacramento, California. I just found this blog and can’t imagine not using it often! Thanks for all your work!

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  85. I am a kindergarten teacher in a very small town called Weed. It is located in very northern California at the base of majestic Mt. Shasta. I am really wanting to work on the writing curriculum as well as implementing Daily 5 (that’s where I got your link). I will buy your book when it comes out! Thanks!

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  86. I am a student teacher (fourth and eighth grades) through the University of Washington, Bothell. As a former newspaper editor, I know how to work with reporters on writing, but it’s time for me to cultivate my skills with children. As a teacher, I want to specialize in writing and have been reading your site for inspiration and strategies. I’m glad to have found you guys and will continue to read–and possibly comment!

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  91. I am an elementary academic coach in LaGrange, GA and I love your site! You both are an inspiration and I appreciate all the hard work you’ve done to help all of us become better, more reflective teachers.

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  92. When I started reading your blog, I was a third grade teacher at a Title I school in Missouri. I was desperate for ideas on how to make writing more meaningful for my students. Little did I know, writing would become more meaningful for me, too!

    Now, I’m a literacy coach, using many of the things I’ve learned from you guys, to inspire other teachers to make reading/writing more meaningful for their students. And hopefully, themselves too.

    Congrats on 1,000,000 hits. Think of how many students your work has reached!

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  93. I currently teach 4-6th grade in Washington, DC through a non-profit, but I also lead a national online community of upper elementary teachers through Teach for America. This site has given me great ideas to share with them as they develop skills in teaching reading and writing. Thank you!!!

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