In this episode, our panelists Gretchen Taylor, Katherine Sokolowski, Gage Jeter, and Amy Fleming talk with teacher, speaker, and author Jeff Anderson, whose article "There Is Always Time to Write Together" appears in the latest issue of Voices from the Middle http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/VM/0253_dec2017/VM0252Leading.pdf. In their conversation, they discuss Jeff's planning and writing process, how teachers should embrace the mess associated with writing, strategies both students and teachers can use to jump-start their own writing process, as well as what inspires Jeff. Be sure to check out his article "The Express-Lane Edit: Making Editing Useful for Adolescents" in the May 2008 issue of Voices from the Middle. http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/VM/0154-may08/VM0154Express.pdf
In the latest installment of Voices from the Bookshelf, Katherine Sokolowski's seventh-grade girls at Monticello Middle School in Monticello, Illinois, talk about some of the books that have had the greatest impact on them so far this year as well as the books they are excited to read next.