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Upon completion of professional learning, educators will have the opportunity to receive a digital badge representing their learning experience.
The Cultivating Writing Schoolwide — Secondary Community of Practice engages and empowers non-ELA secondary and postsecondary educators with knowledge and strategies to increase skills and confidence in writing as a powerful tool in a 21st-century learning environment. Educators across all discipline areas will gain strategies for teaching the writing process, building an understanding of the academic modes of writing (argumentative, expository, narrative, and descriptive), and writing for a range of academic purposes. Participants will explore the power of metacognitive writing to cultivate literacy and student agency. This collaborative experience allows educators, regardless of familiarity with writing instruction, to explore strategies to help students access rigorous content and write like content experts. All strategies, digital activities, and digital tools experienced in this Community of Practice can be leveraged in face-to-face, blended, or virtual learning environments.
This Community of Practice requires all participants to have their own device or laptop that can connect to the internet. Participants must bring an acceptable device, power cord, and earbuds/headphones with them to the session. If a district-issued device is being used, be sure to log in to the device on the district network before attending. Device software and preferred web browsers (Chrome or Firefox) need to be up to date.
- Acceptable devices include laptops, Chromebooks, Surface devices, iPads, and iPad Pros.
- Unacceptable devices include mini iPads, Kindle or Galaxy tablets, and smartphones.
Prerequisites
None.
This session is available as a part of:
Three-day summer virtual professional learning event featuring real-time interaction with facilitators and peers nationwide in both a Community of Practice and a session illustrating ways to extend learning throughout the school year, engage in productive planning, and ignite inspiration campuswide. Plus, time is provided before or after virtual learning for individuals to further reflect or for sites and districts to host their own activities.
Three-day professional learning hosted at 10 face-to-face locations across the United States during June and July that provides high-paced, interactive, dynamic professional learning while modeling engaging and rigorous instruction.
Four 3-hour professional learning modules through a virtual platform using videoconferencing provide a high-paced, interactive, dynamic learning experience while modeling engaging and rigorous instruction. There will also be opportunities to engage in One-to-One Collaborative Coaching.
Two-day professional learning hosted at a face-to-face location across the United States yearlong provides an excellent way to broaden or deepen the ongoing improvement of instruction and comprehensive culture of student success within your school setting.