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Author: Rebekah O'Dell
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Last Day to Register for Camp Rewrite with 15% early bird rate!
Today is the LAST DAY to register with the 15% early bird discount for this summer’s 9-week, self-paced professional development adventure! Use this link to get your discounted registration! If you need to pay with a purchase order or need to purchase a site license for your entire organization, email me at movingwriters@gmail.com!
9 Weeks of Summer PD is at Your Fingertips!
Last summer, Matthew Johnson, Angela Stockman, and I dreamed of a different kind of professional development. Something fun. Something authentic. Something that didn’t include the worship of educelebs. Something that felt like summer camp. We loved our time at Camp Rewrite last summer, and so it’s back for a second year! And YOU can get […]
A Guide to Narrative Writing Genres
Do students in your school write a personal essay of some kind every single year? They do in the three schools I’ve taught in. In fact, narrative writing — especially nonfiction, personal narratives — are perhaps the most ubiquitous piece of writing taught in every school I’ve ever visited. How can we differentiate that — […]
New Moving Writers PD for the Testing Season
You can almost hear the collective intake of breath among teachers nationwide as March 31 turns into April 1 and many of us stare down the reality of imminent testing. The incredible, brilliant Sam Futrell (full-time classroom teacher, author, president of the Virginia Council for the Social Studies, Retro Report fellow, etc.) is offering two […]
Introducing: The Planning Series
Hey there, I’m introducing a brand new professional development series this spring that I think you’ll love! This three-session series helps you learn a process that will quickly and effectively plan writing units that are rooted in mentor texts. I’m MOST excited about session three — a one-on-one, by-appointment session where we plan a unit […]
A Guide to Informational Writing Genres
Standards and pacing guides dictate the modes of writing students need to do in a given school year: informational writing, persuasive writing, argumentative writing, narrative writing. But these documents aren’t as good at sharing what that should actually look like. That — what modes of writing look like in the wild — is genre. The […]
A Flash-Drafting Revolution!
Long after I had moved to a workshop-style classroom, I couldn’t shake a very typical writing-class problem: kids didn’t write. Well, they did, but they still didn’t write until the very last minute, procrastinating and frozen until the assignment was due. Sure, I’d dutifully teach mini-lessons, but then, instead of writing, students would stare, doodle, […]
PD for the Holidays + More
Happy Thanksgiving, Moving Writers family! We are especially thankful for you this holiday season — not only your support of our work here, but, more importantly, your constant support of students in the classroom! As we move full-throttle into the holiday season, we have a number of new PD opportunities, including special options to gift […]
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