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If you're new to Lucy Calkins' workshop like I was, the term "conferring" can quickly become a sore sport if you're not 100% confident in what you're doing. Conferring refers to meeting with students briefly, sometimes in small groups but a majority of the time one on one. The idea is to figure out what your student is working on, see what they do well and what they need to improve on and give them tools to succeed. I spend 45 minutes a period every day conferring while students work on their ow

rationaleat the beginning of the year in my steam femineers class, I wanted an easy introductory assignment that would get students back in the groove and introduce them to the general class structure. Being that this class was comprised of entirely girls I thought it would be a great idea to research other successful women in STEAM and have them learn/practice researching and building a Google site (something most of them would do in one class or another by the end of the school year). In this