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Go to the Heineman Blog: https://blog.heinemann.com/10-tips-for-conferring-with-student-writers-online...

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...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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....

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! ...

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/....