Jenifer Smith is Senior Lecturer in Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK.Simon Wrigley is a  retired English Adviser (Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) and former Chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English, UK.

• 1. Why Teachers’ Writing Groups? 2. Teachers’ Writing Groups: a brief history 3. Approaching Writing and Writing Teachers 4. Composing 5. Writing Histories 6. Setting up a Teachers’ Writing Group 7. Notebooks 8. Responding 9. Writing in Different Spaces 10. Reading into Writing and Back Again 11. Reflecting on writing 12. Our Own Writing: what do teachers write? 13. Reflecting on Teaching 14. Establishing children’s writing groups 15. Observations and Encounters with Children Writing 16. Making Assessments of Writing 17. Writing Groups – from community to classroom and from classroom to community 18. What’s in it for my School? 19. Afterword 20. Books and Websites

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Jenifer Smith is Senior Lecturer in Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK.Simon Wrigley is a  retired English Adviser (Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) and former Chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English, UK.

• 1. Why Teachers’ Writing Groups? 2. Teachers’ Writing Groups: a brief history 3. Approaching Writing and Writing Teachers 4. Composing 5. Writing Histories 6. Setting up a Teachers’ Writing Group 7. Notebooks 8. Responding 9. Writing in Different Spaces 10. Reading into Writing and Back Again 11. Reflecting on writing 12. Our Own Writing: what do teachers write? 13. Reflecting on Teaching 14. Establishing children’s writing groups 15. Observations and Encounters with Children Writing 16. Making Assessments of Writing 17. Writing Groups – from community to classroom and from classroom to community 18. What’s in it for my School? 19. Afterword 20. Books and Websites

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Jenifer Smith is Senior Lecturer in Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK.Simon Wrigley is a  retired English Adviser (Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) and former Chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English, UK.

• 1. Why Teachers’ Writing Groups? 2. Teachers’ Writing Groups: a brief history 3. Approaching Writing and Writing Teachers 4. Composing 5. Writing Histories 6. Setting up a Teachers’ Writing Group 7. Notebooks 8. Responding 9. Writing in Different Spaces 10. Reading into Writing and Back Again 11. Reflecting on writing 12. Our Own Writing: what do teachers write? 13. Reflecting on Teaching 14. Establishing children’s writing groups 15. Observations and Encounters with Children Writing 16. Making Assessments of Writing 17. Writing Groups – from community to classroom and from classroom to community 18. What’s in it for my School? 19. Afterword 20. Books and Websites

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