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Inquiry Lab: Teaching Students to Nudge Each Other Toward Deep Learning
This is a Science Anchor Chart…but I’ve used variations of it in Language Arts…and in Social Studies…and in Math! Welcome to the Inquiry
Tag : Building Independence
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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
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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
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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
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Talking to Teachers: Finding Time to ‘Write Beside Them’ and Confer (in an IB Classroom) (during a pandemic)
This is a follow-up conversation with Matt Foss, the IB Language and Literature teacher from the American Community School of Abu Dhabi. I spoke
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Talking to Teachers: Finding Time to ‘Write Beside Them’ and Confer (in an IB Classroom) (during a pandemic)
This is a follow-up conversation with Matt Foss, the IB Language and Literature teacher from the American Community School of Abu Dhabi. I spoke
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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
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Did They Really Love That Lesson as Much as You Think?
In my first semester beat, I’m exploring the life-saving power of routines–but not just any routines. I’m talking about routines that make
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Guided by (too many) Voices
It’s funny how a few things in school remain mostly normal despite everything else feeling so strange this year. Like the annual arrival of
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To Teach Writing Sin Miedo: Rethinking how we create fear or courage for our writers
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do we provide students with the opportunities and space to write “sin miedo”? ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What
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Tools Over Rules: Writing as Choice-Making, not Compliance
Although I hear people complain that students can’t follow instructions, my experience has been that most of the follow instructions for writing a
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What Comes AFTER Mentor Texts?
My best writing advice for teacher-writers (and my best advice for how to stay in the classroom for the long term) is to write about those problems,