As flu season progresses, it’s likely you’ll be out at least once over the next few months. Leaving plans for a substitute can be stressful and time-consuming. I used to feel like I had to abandon workshop for that day because it was too complicated to explain to a sub. But with a little advance […]
This weekend Rebekah and I travelled to Minneapolis for the NCTE Annual Convention. For the past 96 hours we have been immersed in the world of language arts, and while we’re exhausted and our backpacks are overstuffed, our brains and hearts are full and we just can’t shut up about NCTE. We can’t stop processing […]
We are getting SO excited for our first trip to Minnesota for #NCTE15 — the best weekend of the year! We hope to meet you, dear readers! Here are some places we are sure to be during the convention: Writing With Mentors Book Signing — 11am SATURDAY — Heinemann Booth (#832) Teacher-Writer Roundtable (K.15) — 4:15pm — […]
We hope that we are going to get to meet you at NCTE15 in Minneapolis next week! We will be signing copies of Writing With Mentors at the Heinemann Booth (#832) at 11am on Saturday! We would LOVE to meet you! Please come see us!
We had a wonderful time last night chatting about analytical writing! Here are the questions we considered together: The conversation was fast and furious, chock full of brilliant ideas for engaging students with analytical thinking and writing! Missed it? Need to go back to take notes? You can read the full archives here!
As teachers, we’re always thinking of ways to make grammar less scary for students. Most students would say that grammar is a set of rules, so we have to work hard to undo this restrictive thinking and help them see grammar as a series of possibilities rather than limitations. Recently I have said to my […]
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Writing With Mentors is officially out in the world and making its way to your mailbox as I type! Over the last two days we wrapped up our marathon Tweet-a-thon — 14 days of sharing hot-off-the-presses mentors texts that will inspire, engage, and teach your students myriad writing techniques and elements of excellent craft! Here […]
Gentle readers, tomorrow is the day — the day we have been anticipating and dreaming about for more than a year. Tomorrow is the day that Writing With Mentors is released and available to you! Tomorrow also wraps up our amazing Tweet-a-thon! Here’s what we shared on Days 12 & 13. There is still ONE MORE […]
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