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We teachers keep all kinds of records and notes- attendance records, records of the books our students read, records about math concepts mastered, and spelling words missed. Yet, many of us struggle to… Continue reading →

Do your on-demand writing samples go into a folder or do they help you plan your next steps?

Handwritten vs. Digital? How do you keep records of your conferences?

Lucy Calkins, author of many books on teaching writing, often says that conferring is the heart of writing workshop. I once heard her say to a group of graduate students that she wished… Read More →

Today's guest blog post by Cathy Mere will help you jump on the electronic record-keeping bandwagon. Learn how to use Evernote to keep conferring notes on all of your students.

There are a variety of record-keeping apps, which make it possible to monitor your students’ writing progress. Confer, DailyNotes, Evernote, and Notability are four popular apps that promise to make it easier, dare-I-say… Read More →

One of the teachers I’m working alongside is really focused on honing her conferring skills. So we are hunkering down beside students and listening intently to their work. She leads the conference and… Read More →

One of the teachers I’m working alongside is really focused on honing her conferring skills. So we are hunkering down beside students and listening intently to their work. She leads the conference and… Read More →

Our Stenhouse Facebook Event concludes today with a final downloadable and printable writing tip is entitled “Record-Keeping Systems That Make Sense for You.” You can find this tip on our Facebook Event.  Here’s what you need to do to participate: 1)  Go to our Facebook Page.  Click on the link that will take you to [...]

Ever since I took Carl Anderson‘s course, “Assessment-Based Writing Instruction: Use a study of Student Work to Generate Goals and Systems for Recording Progress Towards Those Goals,” I’ve been thinking a lot about student goals for writing and record-keeping.  While everyone (likely) has writing goals for their students, I wonder how often we use two [...]

Ruth and I are putting the finishing touches on the Conferring Section of our book just as I’m starting to work on presentations for two separate school districts about conferring in the Writing Workshop.  Hence, conferring has been on my mind a lot lately! Record-keeping is always a hot topic when you talk about conferring since [...]

Strategy Lesson Record Sheet Originally uploaded by teachergal It’s always been tedious recording the teaching point from strategy lessons on three - five kids’ conference record sheets every time I conduct a strategy lesson. Therefore, I’ve decided to separate the strategy record logs from my conferring logs. I created the record sheet, right, inside of [...]