mike ziegler

1 min read 2021-10-25 20:30:00

Digital Notebooks, Remixes and Infographics: The Stealth Writing Workshop

A few weeks ago I outlined my peculiar teacher headspace this year as I face the challenge of teaching AP Lang after years of working to perfect

1 min read 2021-09-10 20:30:00

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

6 min read 2021-04-09 20:33:00

As those who read my last post know, I’m currently in the final grading phase of a very long but enjoyable unit of narrative nonfiction writing.

4 min read 2021-03-12 21:30:00

My students are starting their narrative nonfiction writing process this week, so I’ve spent the past few days enjoying brief conferring

1 min read 2021-02-20 20:23:00

Conferring with students about their reading and writing is one of those things I never feel like I will completely master. There will always be new

4 min read 2021-01-22 21:30:00

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

5 min read 2020-12-11 21:30:00

If you’re anything like me, you’ve had to find a good way to blow off steam after a long day at the computer in the virtual world of Zoom. And

5 min read 2020-10-16 20:30:00

This year at Moving Writers, I hope to explore various ways to utilize writing practices in your classroom to build strong social-emotional

5 min read 2020-09-11 20:31:00

With almost everyone back to school in some unusual, frustrating form by now, it feels like a weird time to be asking you to kick back and read an

7 min read 2020-03-12 20:30:31

One of my favorite things about being part of a community of English teachers both in my building and online (Hi Teacher Twitter Buddies!) is that

5 min read 2020-02-05 03:02:23

We are back with another buddy post! The more we talk about what building authentic relationships with our writers looks like in our classrooms, the

7 min read 2020-01-17 03:05:34

January is a tough time of year for me. The holidays are over, the weather is just meh in Michigan, and the craziness of midterms and starting a

5 min read 2019-12-05 21:30:36

I came across one of those well-intended but ultimately wrong-minded tweets today while scrolling through Twitter. It offered advice for “ELA

1 min read 2019-11-24 21:39:12

(Back, from left to right) Paige, Hattie, Mike, Megan, Kristin, Stefanie (Front) Noah, Allison, Rebekah One of my greatest NCTE joys have been the

2 min read 2019-11-22 19:30:01

When I first moved from teaching middle school to teaching high school, I brought my workshop practice with me. At first, I was worried that this