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

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