Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing technology that has the potential to revolutionize the way we learn and work. However, as with any new technology, it can also create some conflicts in schools. While AI has been around for a while, it has never been fantastic – until now with ChatGPT. It is scary […]
Revising and Editing
Writers’ Workshop: Working on Sentence Fluency
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** About ten years ago, I read Jeff Anderson’s Mechanically Inclined and it changed writing in my classroom forever! As someone who never felt competent in their own writing, teaching writing was a daily struggle. […]
The Thinking Part of Writing: Editing and Revising
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Anyone who knows me knows I’m a strong proponent of Writers’ Workshop and making sure students in grades K-12 are writing – EVERY DAY. Writing is hard and if we want students to […]
Instructional Coaching: Editing in a Writers’ Workshop, Day 1 – Sentences
Before I begin, I know that very few people truly love editing. It’s one of those things that is black and white but seems to have so many rules and exceptions that leave most of us confused. From teaching editing skills myself, I am keenly aware of how many rules I didn’t know well enough to teach. I […]