Introduction

Jennifer Gonzalez: In this episode, we'll look at how you can offer more personalized instruction to your students through small lessons. Melanie Mian is a Connecticut-based elementary writing and social studies coordinator who has written three books about teaching writing. She appeared on episode 192, where we talked about backward chaining,. While working on that piece, she also mentioned the seminar strategy; I liked it so much that I thought we should give it its own separate space.