Empowering Writing Partnerships in Writing Workshop by Kimberly Fox
Ahh, what could have been. When I think back on my years as a classroom teacher, I am often filled with a longing for all the ways partnerships might have gone had I known then what I know now. Sure, we had partnerships. We had charts showing who was partners with whom, where they’d meet. And these partnerships did meet to work on their writing, though often only at the end of the unit when kids worked to revise, edit, and ready their writing for publication. In retrospect, w
