goals · teacher writing · teacher-as-writer

Writing Your Way into a New Year: Be a Lead Writer in 2023

Are you ready to start 2023 as a Lead Writer in your classroom as well as a Teacher? Grab a notebook, pick up a pen, and start writing! You’ll be amazed at your own growth–and at the impact it will have on your students.

small group

Playing With Small Group Structures: Rally, Try, Try, Link

Playing with small group structures to maximize cooperation, choice, and most importantly, kids doing big work that will help them grow as writers right away.

authentic writing · childhood · early childhood · emergent writers · kindergarten · play

Writing and Playing: A Natural Pairing in the Kindergarten Classroom

Writing and playing are not one and the same but there is deep value in forging connections between the two by finding regular opportunities to have children both write while they play, AND play while they write! 

Slice of Life Story Challenge

It’s Tuesday! Welcome to the Slice of Life

It's Tuesday- join us for Slice of Life.

authentic writing · community · SEL

Ups and Downs: Writing Our Way Through

How might our first moments back from break welcome back students and staff and all that they may have experienced since we were last together? Tell us how you make space for the ups and the downs and everything in between!