Conferring Course

Improve your conferences with student writers. Enroll today in the 5-day mini-workshop by email that I created for the Partnership for Inquiry Learning at Butler University. Get more info

3 Things I Wish I’d Understood Sooner about Conferring with Young Writers

What I learned from visiting consultant Matt Glover that completely changed my thinking about conferring in writing workshop.

Feedback is important (and I mess up sometimes)

In the first post in this series, I was thinking about the feedback I give student writers. That leads me to another big observation: sometimes I mess up, perhaps even bad enough to set a kid back a little. Learn more about two conversations with students that I’d like to redo.