1. A teaching mindset -- 2. "I don't know what to teach this student. He's a much better writer than I am." -- 3. "I cant seem to get mystudents to stay writing unless I'm sitting beside them." -- 4. "I'm not sure how to work with students new to English." -- 5."I', finding some student writing repetitive and boring." -- 6. "I don't feel prepared to work with a student with such big challenges." -- 7. "I never have enough time." -- 8. "I need more resourc es." -- 9. "I teach grammar but my kids don't learn it." -- 10/ "I feel alone in my work. No one else I know teaches using the writing workshop model." -- 11. "I have trouble getting families to understand writing workshop." -- 12. "I want kids to write about what they care about, but so much of what they care about feels brainless and superficial to me." -- 13. Name your monster -- 14. Five shockingly easy ways to constantly outgrow yourself as a teacher of writing.