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September 13, 2022September 12, 2022megankortlandt

Who > What

A few weeks ago, Rebekah and Allison reached out to the Moving Writers crew to coordinate our schedules and topics for this school year. I wanted to respond, but I was feeling more than a little stuck. I had two ideas, but they both felt pretty lame. I was swimming in doubt, so I reached […]

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June 2, 2022May 31, 2022Abigail Lund

Dream Boards

In this school years last beat Abigail takes you through a writing strategy of “dream/vision boards” to cast a vision for the future with your students.

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February 3, 2022February 2, 2022Abigail Lund

Making Sacred Writing- Sacred Again

This month Abigail takes you through 3 quick ways to jumpstart your writing. If you need a February pick me up.. this is for you.

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December 7, 2021December 6, 2021Sam Futrell

3 Reasons to Use Writing Workshop in a Social Studies Classroom

Welcome to Write Like a Historian! In this series, we’ll explore how to bring writing workshop into the social studies classroom. Every student is a historian. Let’s teach them how to write like one.

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September 10, 2021September 9, 2021Michael Ziegler

New Perspective for an Old(ish) Teacher

Before laying down an opening for this year’s first post, I found myself browsing around the Moving Writers site and checking out some of the lovely work my colleagues are already producing.  Hattie found a way to recharge from last year in the form of an outstanding education book that inspired her.  David found similar […]

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June 4, 2021June 3, 2021Shawna Easton

It’s a Celebration!: Why We Should Honor Achievements in the Classroom

My 40th birthday is in a couple of days, June 6th to be exact. I expected this to be a difficult time in my life as I don’t like accepting that I’m getting older (turning 30 involved a lot of crying!). It has been kind of the opposite; it has made me appreciate the cliche […]

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April 2, 2021March 31, 2021Shawna Easton

Three Authentic Audience Web-Based Platforms to Move Writers

Teaching writing, at first, was a struggle for me. It was a struggle because the kids seemed to detest it. When I asked them why I received all sorts of answers, but one answer that kept coming up was that they didn’t feel like the writing was “real”; they turned in all their writing to […]

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March 15, 2021March 17, 2021Kenneth Bui

Single Skill Revision

In my last Moving Writers post, Shokunin as Revision, I equated the revision process to the elements of artisan work. One of those elements was taking small steps for gradual growth. A great reminder on maximizing the effectiveness of a writing conference with students? Focus on just one skill and one skill only. It is […]

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March 12, 2021March 13, 2021Michael Ziegler

Turning the Page on Writing Conferences…with Reading Conferences

Some thoughts on why I always establish reading conferring in order to prepare students to confer about writing.

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March 5, 2021March 3, 2021Shawna Easton

Write Where You Are: How Writing Helps Us Process Life

Things are a little stressful in Texas, where I live.  We just survived a snow-pocalypse the likes we’ve not seen in a century. Many of us had power outages, no internet, no water, or busted pipes, and this was just during the week of SNOVID! That doesn’t include all of the trials of the aftermath. […]

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