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Melanie explores critical strategies to help you plan for your summer learning. Discover practical tips for organizing your classroom, finding or forming a study group, curating mentor texts, and engaging in personal writing. You'll leave this episode invigorated to try one or more ways to enhance your teaching skills for the upcoming academic year.

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• Join a hybrid book study and writing group led by #TWTBlog co-author Lainie Levin this summer. Learn more at this Summer Writing Refresh: A Grown-up Writing Circle.
• Simple and Functional Classroom Design
• The 9th Annual TWTBlog Author Spotlight Series

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Stacey explores the importance of co-creating goals with students to help them grow as writers. She discusses how collaboration during goal-setting enhances students' ownership, motivation, and personalized learning. It also allows for individualized growth and fosters collaboration and communication with the teacher. If you haven't tried co-creating goals with your students before, this Tip for Tomorrow will inspire you to do so with future groups of students.

Go Deeper with These #TWTBlog Posts:

• Aim Higher: Conferring and Student Goals
• Creating Clarity for Writers
• How Many Stars? Tools for Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting
• ICYMI Aim Higher: Outgrow Old Goals and Set New Ones (Blog Series)
• Setting Goals with Students
• Student Agency, Self-Assessment, and Small Group Instruction
• Students and Goal Setting: My Choice, My Growth, My Responsibility
• The Power of Goal-Setting
• When Your Reality Doesn’t Match Your Expectations
• Writing Checklists: Tools for Independence and Goal-Setting

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In this episode, Melanie guides you through the art of crafting concise and well-structured paragraphs that are easy to follow and understand. With her expert tips on oral rehearsal and the use of sentence frames, she empowers young writers to hone their writing skills and develop a unique voice. Tune in to learn how to help students move from writing formulaic paragraphs to composing authentic pieces that truly showcase their writing talents.

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