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September 22, 2020
A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences
Classroom Essentials
Grade Level: K – 8th
How’s It Going?
A Practical Guide to Conferring with
Student Writers
Grade Level: 2nd – 8th
Assessing Writers
Grade Level: 3rd – 8th
About Carl Anderson
Carl Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in the teaching of writing for grades K-8. He works as a consultant in schools and districts around the world, and is a longtime staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Carl is the author of numerous books on teaching writing, including the new A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, the best-selling How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers, Assessing Writers, and Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward.
Carl began his career in education as a teacher in elementary and middle schools in the Bronx, New York, Bardstown, Kentucky, and Northbrook, Illinois.
Carl is also known for being an avid fan of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, his love for coaching little league baseball in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his family, and his lifelong passion for sailing.
Blog
I wrote a guest blog on 7/22/19 for the the Houghton Mifflin Shaped Blog
The blog entry is titled, “Conferring is Differentiated Instruction: How to Hold Student Writing Conferences.” www.hmhco.com/blog/conferring-is-differentiated-instruction-how-to-hold-student-writing-conferences
July 27, 2019
I have an article in the May, 2019, issue of Voices from the Middle!
Check out the article I wrote for the May, 2019, issue of NCTE’s Voices from the Middle, “Let’s Put Conferring in the Center of Writing Instruction.” http://secure.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/VM/0264-may2019/VM0264May19Lets.pdf?_ga=2.109403909.1014526142.1564238265-1663096704.1561994687
July 27, 2019
Check out this Heinemann podcast I did with Katie Wood Ray and Jennifer Serravallo!
Katie Wood Ray, Jennifer Serravallo and I did a podcast, “Modeling Conferences as Conversations.” In the style of NPR’s Terry Gross, Katie asks Jen and I some great questions about conferring with students. https://blog.heinemann.com/on-the-podcast-modeling-conferences-as-conversations
July 27, 2019
Check out this wonderful recap of my recent #G2Great twitter chat, by Jenn Hayhurst!
Check out this wonderful recap of my recent #G2Great twitter chat, by Jenn Hayhurst! literacylenses.com/2018/10/g2great-with-carl-anderson-10-18-18-a-teachers-guide-to-writing-conferences-k-8-classroom-essentials/
October 30, 2018
Check out this recent Heinemann podcast in which I discuss A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences…
Check out this recent Heinemann podcast in which I discuss A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences: https://blog.heinemann.com/a-teachers-guide-to-writing-conferences-a-podcast-with-carl-anderson
October 22, 2018
I love this recent Heinemann blog, “What is a Writing Conference?”…
I love this recent Heinemann podcast, “What is a Writing Conference?”, which includes a wonderful video dramatizing my very first writing conference in 1987. Hint: It was a disaster! https://blog.heinemann.com/what-is-a-writing-conference.
October 22, 2018
There have been several recent Heinemann blog posts about A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences…
There have been several recent Heinemann blog posts about A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, “Inviting students to Talk About Their Writing,” at https://blog.heinemann.com/inviting-students-to-talk-about-their-writing, and “What Makes a Good Writing Conference,” at https://blog.heinemann.com/what-makes-a-good-writing-conference. Both blog posts contain links video of me conferring with students!
October 22, 2018
Stacey Shubitz of Two Writing Teachers recently posted her review…
Stacey Shubitz of Two Writing Teachers recently posted her review of A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, as well as a Q & A with me. You can read them both at https://twowritingteachers.org/2018/10/05/conferringwithcarlanderson/.
October 22, 2018
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In THREE days, on Monday, 10/26 at 7pm, @Mattglover123 and I will continue our webinar series by discussing assessing student writers, online or onsite. This will be recorded and you can watch it at a different time. Join us! https://www.authortoauthor.org/five-strategies-for-assessing-student-writers-online-or-onsite/
Upcoming Events
Individualize Writing Instruction by Conferring with Student Writers . . . Whatever the Setting! A Full-Day, Virtual Workshop (PT)
October 29 @ 8:30 am - 3:30 pmWebinar Series with Dan Feigelson: Reading and Writing Conferences: What’s the Same and What’s Different? 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28
November 7 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pmIndividualize Writing Instruction by Conferring with Student Writers . . . Whatever the Setting! A Virtual, One Day Workshop (EST)
December 3 @ 8:30 am - 3:30 pm