Category: Voices from the Community

agency · Voices from the Community

You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers

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Lighten your mental load by placing more agency in your writers’ hands. Here are simple ways to empower your writers and make your life easier.

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professional development · Voices from the Community

Clarity, Confidence, and Community: Reimagining PD for Writing Teachers

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When I plan this kind of professional development, I picture the mentors who shaped my teaching. I hear their words in the advice I pass on. Confidence matters. So does content knowledge. But the most important piece? A strong net of support and collaboration. Because when teachers feel grounded in their practice—and connected to one another—they’re able to do their best work for young writers.

Three Practical Tips to Boost Volume in Writing
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Three Practical Tips to Boost Volume in Writing

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If you’re tired of hearing the phrase, “I’m done!” echo through your classroom, this post is for you! Getting your students writing with sky-high volume using these three, easy-to-implement tips.

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coaching · Ready-to-Go Tip · stamina · teacher-as-writer · Voices from the Community

Writing Cheerleader: A Ready-To-Go Tip

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Today’s post from Terje Äkke invites you to think about an inner writing cheerleader and offers a way to play with this idea with young writers.

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high school · middle school · personal essay · Straight from the Classroom · Voices from the Community

Harnessing the Strength of “I’m Really Into” Essays: Straight from the Classroom

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Discover the transformative power of "I'm Really Into" essays in the aftermath of a school fire. This engaging teaching approach fosters student connection, amplifies voices, and sparks authentic exploration, while offering practical tips for implementation. Experience the joy of learning with this insightful guest blog post.

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administrators · literacy coaches · Voices from the Community

Principals can be literacy coaches too!

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Building administrators are and should be lead teachers! Although we often get bogged down in the mechanics of running a school, finding moments to reconnect with our own teaching passions is a key part in staying grounded, being a model for the staff, and building relationships with students. For me, writing has always been my passion and therefore I make it a priority to find time to teach, confer, and connect with my community to both share my passion about writing and fuel theirs!

Writing with Wren: Nurturing a Writing Identity
Voices from the Community · writer identity · writing life

Writing with Wren: Nurturing a Writing Identity

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An eight-year-old writer helps her mom reflect on ways that teachers can help to foster the habits and conditions that nurture children who grow up believing that they have words, ideas, and stories worth writing and sharing.

Integrating Social Studies into Reading and Writing Workshops
middle school · social studies · Voices from the Community

Integrating Social Studies into Reading and Writing Workshops

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For Shaista Ashraf, the thought of teaching social studies not just as social studies, but through the minilessons of reading and/or writing workshop was daunting to start. But with some collaboration, sharing of ideas, and a thorough understanding of the units and sessions she taught, it became clear, lucid, and even enjoyable!

Supporting Multimodal Composition in the Writing Workshop: Simple Ways to Begin
multimodal · Voices from the Community

Supporting Multimodal Composition in the Writing Workshop: Simple Ways to Begin

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In this guest blog post by Angela Stockman, she contends that writing is and always has been multimodal. Check out her ideas for easy ways to begin supporting multimodal composition in your workshop.

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Voices from the Community

Contributing Your Voice to the Community

Amy Ellerman

Do you remember when you first became a reader of Two Writing Teachers Blog? I do. I was a second grade teacher, and I was launching writer’s notebooks with my students for the first time. I stumbled across a TWT post through (smart) luck via Google, and discovered a gold mine.

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choice · community · Distance Learning · Freewriting · guest blogger · Voices from the Community · writing workshop

Becoming Writers Together: The Joyful Writers’ Club

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Carving out space and time for experiences that honor student agency and their diverse writing lives is not only empowering but also gifts them with the habit of writing and the identity as writers. We can write our way through this pandemic, together and emerge as writers.

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remote instruction · remote learning · Voices from the Community · writing workshop

Composing, Collaborating, Conferring, Conversing: Keeping an Eye on Student Writing During Remote Instruction

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Today, TWT is honored to have Jennifer Serravallo as a guest writer, sharing ideas related to student writing during remote instruction.