Your fast-track to student engagement Everywhere Smokey Daniels goes--every school he visits, every workshop he leads, every keynote he gives--there's one teaching strategy that teachers embrace above all others. That single method for transforming students from passive spectators into active learners for evoking curiosity, inspiring critical thinking, and building powerful writers along the way. Now, with Elaine Daniels as Smokey's coauthor, that best-kept teaching secret is revealed to teachers at large: Written Conversations. Just what make Written Conversations so potent? An ongoing, thoughtful correspondence between students, and between students and their teachers, Written Conversations, above all else, catch and ride the wave of social interaction, which in turn makes school matter to kids. It's that simple. Structure by structure, from beginning to end, Smokey ...