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Stacey Shubitz
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✍️Literacy Consultant Specializing in Writing Workshop - http://staceyshubitz.com
📚Author - Published by @stenhousepub & @ZanerBloser
💻🎙️Co-founder of #TWTBlog & Co-host of #TWTPod - twowritingteachers.org
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This week, Melanie talks with TWTBlog co-authors Sarah Valter and Leah Thomas about ways to infuse writing experiences in students' lives beyond classroom instruction. 
Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/18123775 or wherever you get your podcasts.
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Are you gearing up for parent-teacher conferences? This week on #TWTPod, Melanie shares five practical ways to take your writing conferences from good to great. They're the perfect tips for the busy season!
Listen now: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/18104342!
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Listen as we chat with Paul Emerich France about prioritizing writing! His book, MY KIDS CAN'T WRITE, offers K-5 teachers practical guidance on integrating writing into all subject areas.
🎧: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/18051668.
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Happy National Day on Writing! ✍️

The Two Writing Teachers team invites passionate educators to join our mission: empowering young voices through writing. Tap to hear our special message and learn how you can collaborate with us to inspire the next generation of writers!
October 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Looking at student writing through different lenses helps us plan what’s next. This week on #TWTPod, Melanie shares practical ways to assess writing and choose next steps.
Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/18032790 or wherever you get your podcasts.
October 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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In this Writing Roundtable, we chat with Patty McGee and Tim Donohue, authors of Not Your Granny’s Grammar. Discover fresh, research-based ways to make grammar meaningful, engaging, and practical for every classroom!
🎧 LISTEN NOW: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/17662733. #TWTPod
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October 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Season 4 of #TWTPod kicks off with a conversation about choice, exploring why it matters for writers and how teachers can create more of it in the classroom. Tune in & join us in reimagining how choice shapes writing! 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/17917412
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October 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The last five minutes of writing workshop can feel easy to skip. However, when the teaching share is structured through self-assessment, communication, and reflection, it can change everything.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I'm pleased to share the cover of my upcoming book, Make the School System Work for Your Child with Disabilities! This essential guide will help parents navigate special education, communicate with schools, and advocate for their child’s success. Learn more: guilford.com/p/shubitz.
Promo image for my forthcoming book. There is an empty classroom with a book cover entitled make the school system work for your child with disabilities.
August 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Jenna Komarin shows how setting a positive tone in kindergarten sparks young writers’ confidence. From storytelling to hands-on writing moments, help learners see themselves as writers from day one!
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Graphic Thinking Ahead Thursday post on kindergarten writing. The image highlights how setting a positive, inclusive tone in the first weeks helps young children see themselves as writers, featuring ideas like storytelling, labeling the classroom, and offering drawing and writing materials during play. Designed to inspire early childhood educators to foster confidence and creativity in new writers.
July 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Shawnda Fukano shares how the STRONGER & CLEARER protocol uses oral rehearsal and peer feedback to help students, especially multilingual learners, create clearer, stronger writing through collaboration and revision.
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It's Make Your Case Monday at Two Writing Teachers! "While one partner shares their opinion and reasons, the other partner’s job is to listen carefully and think about how the ideas could be clearer and stronger." -Shawnda Fukano in Stronger & Clearer: A Partnership Protocol
July 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Meeting the needs of diverse writers is a constant challenge. Small shifts in accommodations, scaffolds, and modifications can build accessibility and lead students toward independence, confidence, and success in writing.
Betsy Hubbard shares more: bit.ly/a-or-m.
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July 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Kick off the school year by discovering how understanding students as writers transforms your classroom community and leads to more meaningful, personalized instruction. See how this insight empowers both educators and learners.
🎧 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/15538607
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Graphic for “Thinking Ahead Thursday: Get to Know Writers—A Digging Deeper Dialogue.” The image promotes a podcast episode about building a vibrant classroom community by understanding students as writers, featuring strategies like kid-watching, writer’s notebooks, and student-led storytelling. Includes the Two Writing Teachers podcast link.
July 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Beth Moore shows how offering different paper options lets every student tackle opinion, persuasive, or argument writing in their own way—no formulas, just real writing for all!
https://wp.me/p57D8-eJJ 
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It's Make Your Case Monday on Two Writing Teachers! Providing options for paper allows all your students to do the same type of writing (opinion, persuasive, or argument) in many different ways. Differentiating the materials makes it possible for all your students to do the work–without having to resort to a formula or fill-in-the-blank worksheet." -Beth Moore in Paper Choices for Opinion and Argument Writing
July 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Want to make your classroom more inclusive? Learn about accommodations in organization, tools, time, response, and seating to support every student writer in your classroom!
🎧 Listen to #TWTPod at bit.ly/access-instruction or wherever you get your podcasts.
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July 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Jess Carey highlights how a purposeful, well-stocked writing center with clear routines can boost student independence and engagement. Now is the perfect time to plan your writing space for a fresh start this school year!
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Thinking Ahead Thursday Promo Cream writing with a black and red background Quote: “Having a purposeful writing center is one way to support ongoing student agency in your classroom.” -Jessica Carey in Writing Centers: A Vision of Independence
July 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Sarah Valter explores how teaching kids the weight of words helps them become critical readers and intentional writers, shaping thoughtful creators in a world full of powerful messages.
https://wp.me/p57D8-lHb
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Make Your Case Monday on Two Writing Teachers “By making some small shifts in our writing practices to raise awareness of the impact and meaning behind a piece of writing, we can set students up to become both critical consumers and creators of information.” -Sarah Valter in Writing With Open Eyes: Teaching Young Writers to Recognize Bias and Create with Clarity
July 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Brush up your understanding of how working memory functions within the brains of your writers. Betsy Hubbard shares insights on how working memory influences writing development and strategies to support it in the classroom.
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July 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Leah Koch Thomas shows how starting writing workshop on day one sets the tone for the year, making writing feel important, welcoming, and empowering for all students. https://wp.me/p57D8-kYa
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Thinking Ahead Thursday Graphic (cream text with deep red and black background) Quote Says: “What do you want the first writing workshop to feel like?” -Leah Koch Thomas in TWT Help Desk: What if it’s the First Day of Writing Workshop? http://twowritingteachers.org
July 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Struggling to get students to care about persuasive writing? Lainie Levin shows how the “dissatisfaction spectrum” helps kids connect with issues that matter, sparking powerful, focused writing and real-world expression.
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July 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Having started her career as a special education teacher, Melanie Meehan feels strongly connected to colleagues who support students with IEPs. She has curated their collaborative ideas to inspire and empower all children to write. Read more: bit.ly/worksped. #TWTBlog
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July 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Sarah Valter shares essential lessons for starting the year with a new literacy program. Embrace imperfection, trust your expertise, and focus on the core goals of growing confident, skilled writers, not just the materials.
https://wp.me/p57D8-kYz
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Graphic featuring the text: “Thinking Ahead Thursday: 'The writing process hasn’t changed. Your school community hasn’t changed. The qualities of a skilled and independent writer haven’t changed.' —Sarah Valter in What if I’m starting the year with a new program?” The image highlights Sarah Valter’s message about maintaining core writing values when implementing a new literacy program.
July 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Wrap up season three with us as we dive into the essentials of great writing instruction! Discover how explicit teaching, foundational skills, and teacher-led communities can transform your classroom.
Listen & share this #TWTPod episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/16934398.
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May 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It’s the final #TWTPod episode of season three! We’re reflecting on the principles that drive successful writing instruction, empowering students within any curriculum.
Listen & share this #TWTPod episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/16934398.
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May 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Melanie’s family can’t get enough of the Salad Bowl game! It’s a fun, effective way to build vocabulary in any subject, perfect for classrooms.
Listen to #TWTPod on https://www.buzzsprout.com/2027003/episodes/17136139.
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May 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM