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 Welcome to our wiki on conferring! Check out our goals for this year:
 * to become even smarter about conferring with your students than you are right now
 * to understand how your language shapes and influences your students

In order to reach these goals, you'll develop an inquiry question around conferring and then see what you learn about that question through the actual conferences while you teach. When I join you throughout the year, we'll use your inquiry question as a major part of the coaching. At our end of the year learning lab, we'll also focus on conferring.

For the second goal, we'll be reading a little book called //Choice Words//. Even though Peter Johnstone wrote the book with an elementary teacher in mind, his insights are important for all of us, regardless of the age of students that we teach. His insights also will guide our coaching throughout this year.

My hope is that you will use this wiki as a place to think about your teaching and as a way for us to collaborate in between visits. When you find articles that may be of interest to your colleagues, add them to the "articles and whatever" page and engage in discussions on the discussion page. We might even upload a video or two of conferences that take place in your classrooms.