Lee Ann Spillane, a high school teacher, asserts that sharing stories at a common table is what the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge is all about.
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A Third-Grade Teacher and Her Students Dive Into the Classroom SOLSC
Shelly Surridge and her third-grade students have been slicing for the past few years. In this post, she'll encourage you to join them online next month.
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Tips, Tricks, and Routines for Making Your Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge a Success
Katy Collins, a sixth-grade teacher, has been slicing with her students for several years. If you're thinking about participating in the Classroom SOLSC with your students, then you'll want to read her post.
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Celebrating the Unsung Hero of Writing: The Process
Instead of a typical publishing party, fifth-grade teacher Christina Nosek and her students held a writing process celebration.
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Don’t Forget the Compliment
Lanny Ball reminds us that compliments are a bit like gifts we give our students each day.
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Keeping the ‘Mini’ in Mini Lessons for the Middle School Writing Workshop
Katie Kraushaar, a middle school teacher, has six tips for keeping minilessons mini during writing workshop.
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In the Classroom We Are All Learners: Reflecting on a Year of Becoming Word Conscious
Elizabeth Siracusa, a fourth- and fifth-grade looping teacher, reflects on the ways she infused vocabulary instruction into her classroom this year.
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Turkeys and the Teaching of Writing: School Leadership Blog Series
Our children are not all the same. Nor should their art be, nor their writing.
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Integrating Technology into Writing Workshop: School Leadership Blog Series
Our district’s mission is to give voice and choice to our learners. Teachers frequently incorporate technology into writing workshop, in order to differentiate approaches to writing, to add depth to informational and argumentative writing, and to support conferencing with writers. As an administrator, I have found this to be a huge benefit to both our writing instruction, and to achieving the district mission.
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Thoughtful Teaching of Test Writing as a Genre: School Leadership Blog Series
Test writing is a genre and has a specific audience and our students are better prepared to meet the demands of the genre when we teach into it.
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Personal Passion Creates Magic: School Leadership Blog Series
Leaders must model the same passion for learning that we expect teachers to model for students. Leaders build relationships, they get to know their team, and they encourage passion.
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I Wrote This: School Leadership Blog Series
Finding a way to actively model the things that we want for our teachers, students, families, and community members helps move everything forward...but most of all, it really makes you a better you.
