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Occasionally, I repost this article so that new readers can find it more easily.  Based on some very enthusiastic feedback, it has since morphed into a book proposal called The Top Secret New Teachers Handbook.  I'll share more as it ...

So I saved an educator's life today while talking to her after lunch.  We were walking back from Panera to the afternoon session of the UCI Writer's Project and we were engrossed in a discussion about using metacognitive strategies in ...

 Here's how I have set up this lesson:    Having been trained in the America's Choice Writer's Workshop as well as History Alive, I have my students keep a Writer's Journal with a running Table of Contents.  This is a journal that ...