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Category: Allison Marchetti
What We Wish We Had Known …
This weekend as so many teachers graduate from college and begin this wonderful, crazy, noble, life-changing career, Allison and I wrote about what we wish we had known when we started at the Education Week Teacher blog! We thought we knew everything when we left our teacher ed programs. We could plan a perfectly balanced […]
Five Ways to Use Sketching in Writing Workshop
Bring sketching into your workshop to help students visualize details and reflect on the writing process.
Finding Writing Time Where Time Doesn’t Exist
With a little bit of creativity and flexibility, you can add more writing time to your classes!
Three Different Approaches to Flash Drafting
No matter where students are in their writing, flash drafting can be a useful exercise if students are invited to flash draft on their own terms.
Watch Us on #theEdCollabGathering!
What a thrill it was to go LIVE this morning with #theEdCollabGathering to chat about Notebook Time and the ways it moves our student writers forward through play and discovery! You can view our session here, on The Educator Collaborative’s Gathering site, or here on YouTube! You can get all of our materials by […]
#TheEdCollabGathering: Unearthing Discovery & Play
Did you know that on April 2, Chris Lehman and the generous geniuses at The Educator Collaborative are giving away a whole day of brilliant, free PD that you can watch from home in your jammies? We would love to have you join Allison and me from 11-12pm as we talk about bringing play back to the […]
No Writer Left Behind: How Night Writing Can Help Your Students
Night writing — the simple practice of writing after school hours — can be a game changer for some students.
A Writing With Mentors Interview
We had so much fun talking to Anna E. Baldwin (@annaebaldwin), a professor at the University of Montana, about writing workshop, mentor texts, and our new project!
Books that Move Us: The Revision Toolbox (Georgia Heard)
From revision checklists to quick exercises to suggested talking points for strategic conferences and an appendix replete with graphic organizers, The Revision Toolbox is brimful with use-in-your-classroom-tomorrow ideas. But it also vibrates with inspirational quotes and big ideas.
moving writers 