I've been tinkering with Instagram Stories this summer. I've discovered several ways teacher-writers can use them as a tool for living and storytelling.
Month: August 2018
A Fall To-Do List for Shared Writing in Your K-2 Classroom
Maybe this will be the year I do a lot more shared writing!
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Writers, Not Just For Workshop
When it comes to identity and living a writerly life, our work does not begin or end at writing workshop. In this post, I highlight three practical steps for nurturing writers beyond writing workshop.
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Be a Teacher Who Writes!
Have you resolved to write alongside your students this year? If so, join us today and any Tuesday year-round for #sol18.
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Nudging Students to Think of Ideas
The fact that these charts have an interactive element is a key part of their usefulness because they end of being not only an idea-generating tool, but also an accountability tool.
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Our Favorite “Back-to-School” Posts
Whether you're already back in school or returning in the next two weeks, I've rounded up some of our team's best blog posts that will help you launch & sustain writing workshop in 2018-19.
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Our Job: Noticers-in-Chief
Whether or not you have started school already or you are taking those final deep breaths before your first day, let us remember one thing that sets us writing workshop teachers apart from other methodologies, curricula, programs, and/or approaches to teaching writing: we NOTICE.
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Quick Tip: Twitter Digital Notebook
Do you wish you can save all the bits of inspiration and ideas you read on Twitter? Now you can! Read on for an easy way to never lose those tweets again.
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SOL Tuesday
Be a teacher who writes! Join us for our weekly writing challenge. #sol18
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Five Tips to Building a Rereading Habit
Do you make time for your writers to reread? Rereading is one of those pieces of the workshop we might be assuming our writers are doing but direction is needed to really make it a habit. Here are five tips to give rereading a place in your writing workshop this year.
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Planning for Intentionality: Elementary Planner Giveaway
Do you have a love/hate relationship with your plan book? Are you looking to be more inspired when you jot your weekly plans? Read on to learn about the Intentional Educator Planner (Elementary) and comment for a chance to win your own copy!
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My One Piece of Advice
"If you were going to give just one piece of advice to a colleague who is just starting out with writing workshop, what would it be?" As a literacy coach and consultant, this is a question that I have been asked again and again... and again. And each time my answer is the same.
