Learning Opportunities

Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

Presented By

Penny Kittle

Series Sessions

Date Time
Thursday, June 04, 2020 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

Online Online

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, please know that SAPDC is working to support your Professional Learning needs.  We are reaching out to our presenters scheduled for the rest of the 2019-20 school year to explore online methods of delivery.  Registered participants will be contacted via email of status changes of learning opportunities.

Moving students beyond compliant reading and writing and into engaged reading and writing takes focused planning. How can we create a volume of practice that improves reading, writing, speaking and listening? We will study a balance of opportunities for students to demonstrate independence and increased proficiency across a lesson, a unit, and a year.

Participants---with colleagues--- are encouraged to bring curriculum maps. We will consider classroom structures that place volume, choice, modeling, and feedback at the center of our instruction. Participants will work with other educators to:

  • create reading and writing maps for the school year
  • collect engaging seeds for writers’ notebooks
  • practice modeling revision moves that improve a text
  • create opportunities for digital composition across the school year
  • plan to engage students in the study of the craft of poetry 
  • design practices to improve reading fluency, poetry performance, and TED-talk style presentations
  • find sentences, passages, and whole texts that will mentor our students in specific writing craft and editing moves across genres
  • design assessments that ask students to cite evidence of their learning  

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