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Meeting Students Where They Are (TK-8): Leveraging Students' Knowledge to Teach Writing Well

Dates: March 3, 17 & April 14, 2022 • 4:00pm - 5:30pm • Zoom

Cost: $25 each participant for the 3-session series

Instructors: Christine Kane, Jamie Lanham, & Valentyna Banner

Registration: Registration is via Eventbrite k8open2022.eventbrite.com

Description: This open institute offers teachers the opportunity to develop foundational teaching practices using mentor texts with an equity lens, writing fluency exercises, and critical thinking protocols. Participants will engage with strategies that support differentiation for all learners along the writing continuum. 

During the sessions, participants will:

  • utilize culturally responsive mentor texts as scaffolds for writing instruction
  • draw on student knowledge and critical thinking skills to engage them as writers
  • learn inclusive strategies to develop students' writing fluency and confidence
  • accelerate learning with a variety of critical thinking protocols
  • recharge In this time of teacher fatigue, teachers will have opportunities to reimagine writing instruction and cull personal voice and creativity, reinvigorating purpose and joy in the classroom

This San Diego Area Writing Project Open Institute program is made possible, in part or in whole, by the 2021 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in schools. 

Meeting Students Where They Are (Secondary): Leveraging Students' Knowledge to Teach Writing Well

Dates: January 10, 24 & February 7, 2022 • 4:00pm - 5:30pm • Zoom

Cost: $25 each participant for the 3-session series

Instructors: Divona Roy, Monique Lamphiere-Tamayoshi & Joe Ferro

Registration: Registration is via Eventbrite open2022secondary.eventbrite.com

Description: This open institute offers teachers the opportunity to develop foundational teaching practices using mentor texts with an equity lens, writing fluency exercises, and critical thinking protocols. Participants will engage with strategies that support differentiation for all learners along the writing continuum. 

During the sessions, participants will:

  • utilize culturally responsive mentor texts as scaffolds for writing instruction
  • draw on student knowledge and critical thinking skills to engage them as writers
  • learn inclusive strategies to develop students' writing fluency and confidence
  • accelerate learning with a variety of critical thinking protocols
  • recharge In this time of teacher fatigue, teachers will have opportunities to reimagine writing instruction and cull personal voice and creativity, reinvigorating purpose and joy in the classroom

This San Diego Area Writing Project Open Institute program is made possible, in part or in whole, by the 2021 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in schools.