Did you experiment with some poetry now that the school year is in full swing? If not, here are a few more ideas to convince you poetry can be woven into your day. It starts with you.
Questioning Traditional Homework Practices
It can feel scary and uncertain to step away from a traditional practice like assigning homework. Following your teacher heart (and your gut) and reading what other professionals and researchers have shared can make you feel more confident in taking a risk and trying a new policy. Read on to see how one teacher (me) changed how and why homework is assigned.
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Tips for Analyzing and Scoring a Ton of Writing
Time is precious, and your mental energy even more so. Why waste either when others before you have learned through trial and error? Avoid common missteps by reading these simple tips.
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From Dependent to Independent: Four Ways To Begin Tomorrow
We're not just teaching writers to be independent, we're teaching them how to be independent. Here are four ways to nurture independence during today's writing workshop!
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It’s SOL Tuesday
Today, on the 17th anniversary of the tragic day, 9/11 choose kind. Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11. … Continue reading It’s SOL Tuesday
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Pausing to Remember 9/11
We, at Two Writing Teachers, pause today to remember all the lives that were lost and the heroes who gave their all in trying to save others. Since tomorrow is a Slice of Life Tuesday, our post about 9/11 is published today.
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Books to Begin the School Year
Add six new picture books to your back-to-school read alouds and to your mentor text collection this fall. After you read through this post, be sure to leave a comment about how you'd use these books in your classroom for a chance to win all six of them.
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4 Tips for Modeling with Your Own Writing
For many of us who work to live as writers and teachers who write, we likely do so in order to appreciate the challenge, the complexity, and the thrill that writing can provide for our lives. It is living through the process that matters. But what about turning some of our writing into teaching tools for our writing workshops? Here are four tips...
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The Forging of a Writing Community
No longer scared and timid, our work has forged a community of writers.
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SOL Tuesday
As you join us on Tuesday year-round for Slice of Life we hope to learn about how being a teacher who writes is making its presence in your days.
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Poetry Every Day in 5 Minutes or Less
For some, this might be your last evening before school begins. For others, you might be on your third week! Tonight I'm sharing five, five-minute ideas that might just help you fit poetry into your day, each day. I needed to find a solution to the lack of poetry in my day for my students and I'm hoping these ideas might just inspire some of your own as you begin a new year.
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Playing Around with Instagram Stories
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.
