Most Popular Workshops

English & Language Arts Workshops (Grades 7-12)

• Getting Them to Write
• Teaching Writing for Test Takers
• Writing Teachers, Writing Students
• Evaluating Student Writing

• Writing in the Social Studies Classroom
• How to Teach About 9/11 and the Events Since

• Six Plus One Writing Traits
• Reading and Writing Nonfiction

• Writing Teachers, Writing Students

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Workshop Descriptions

Getting Them to Write (Grades 7-12)
Learn strategies to motivate reluctant writers while stimulating advanced students to stretch their abilities to reach a new level. You will practice anxiety-reducing exercises such as un graded journal writing that kids want to do, writing for different audiences (historical, literary & mythological figures as well as those from pop culture), imaginative interviewing, quirky book reactions, creative writing (memoir, flash fiction and poetry), etc.

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Teaching Writing for Test Takers (Grades 7-12)
Teachers will learn to create and customize their own picture prompt and persuasive writing topics. This skill-based workshop will also share useful techniques to help students generate multiple ideas for writing essays and other standardized test preparation, revision strategies, points for editing and polishing essays and a pain-free grammar blitz. Well, almost pain-free.

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Writing Teachers, Writing Students (Grades K-12)
This workshop will encourage teachers to become practicing writers for their own professional development so they become better teachers of writing. In addition, it will offer approaches for evaluating student writing, paper management strategies and will conclude with a plan to build a writing friendly school by creating a community of teachers who write.

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Evaluating Student Writing (Grades 7-12)
This workshop will present an overview of how to read and respond to students' writing. Topics include creating incrementally structured assignments, alternatives to numerical and letter grades, group editing and peer critiquing, making writing fun and handling the paper load. Teachers will leave with handouts, ideas and enthusiasm for having their students write more and better.

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Writing in the Social Studies Classroom (Grades 7-12)
A workshop for social studies teachers on classroom writing strategies designed to: improve the cogency of the subject, increase the interest level of students and lower student anxiety over major writing projects. We will also discuss surprisingly easy techniques for designing plagiarism-proof assignments and streamlining teacher workload–a major concern whenever writing is promoted.

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How to Teach About 9/11 and the Events Since (Grades 7-12)
We will explore how to help students begin to understand the historical and moral context of what occurred on September 11, 2001, including relevant events in our own history and that of the Middle East, Central Asia; the essentials of Islam and the particulars of Islamic fundamentalism; the history of Al Queda; the nature and history of terrorism. We will seek to understand the choices made in response to 9/11, including the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and, most recently in Gaza and Lebanon.

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Six Plus One Writing Traits (Grades 3-8)
Learn valuable strategies to help you develop confident and creative writers. The Six Plus One Writing Traits are flexible and easy to implement, and they work well with existing curriculum and materials. These strategies will also help you to guide and assess writing instruction and prepare students for success in state and standardized testing.

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Reading and Writing Nonfiction (Grades K-3 & 4-8)
The ability to grasp nonfiction information effectively is critical in today's world. Teachers can improve their students' abilities to comprehend and respond to factual information by learning the research-based techniques this workshop shares. Teachers can use these strategies to evaluate and enrich units in a variety of content areas. The presenter will offer a variety of crucial reading and writing techniques which will help students interpret the world around them. These strategies can be used during independent student work or as part of guided reading groups.

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• English & Language Arts (Grades 7-12)
• History & Social Studies (Grades 7-12)
• Mathematics & Science (Grades 7-12)
• Elementary (Grades K-8)
• Across the Curriculum (Grades K-12)

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