** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on Writers’ Workshop session to your campus ** In a true Writers’ Workshop, students are busy working on drafts of multiple works at the same time. While I believe that there are some aspects of frameworks like Writers’ Workshop that are left […]
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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 […]
Student Reading Ability is More than a Level
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Disclaimer before you begin reading this post: I am not anti-leveling students. Assessing students, with any program, and getting a ballpark idea of their reading level is a great starting point. I do firmly believe, however, […]
Success with Explicit Instruction
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** So many times in education we, as teachers, are bombarded with buzz words. These words will eventually become white noise, words you expect to hear in an academic setting, but you no longer […]
Setting Up Routines: Writing to Make Strong Relationships with Students and Parents
I have to admit, this is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the excitement of getting to know a whole new group of students. I enjoy deliberating on my classroom furniture and thinking about how to design my room. I thrive off of creating new routines that will make my classroom […]
Organizing the Classroom: Eradicate Pencil Woes
Yes, a post about pencils. How is it that something as small as a pencil can cause so much grief for teachers? At times it is the bane of our existence. Students not having pencils when it’s time to write, students having pencils when they should be listening, students sharpening pencils for hours on end, […]
Generating Writing Topics the First Week of School
** Contact us if you would like to have our evidence-based, engaging Writers’ Workshop session come to your campus! ** “I don’t have anything to write about Miss…” This phrase was all too familiar in my classroom when I began Writers’ Workshop. Regardless of the grade I taught, first, fifth, or eighth, the students would resist writing. […]
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 […]