Uncommonly Good Professional Learning in Support of the Common Core State Standards:
Contact your local writing project for information about summer and school-year professional learning programs that can address, but are not limited to, the following issues and topics:
Understanding the standards and “the shifts”
Writing to convey, inform, argue, and analyze
Developing disciplinary literacy
Digital writing, teaching, and learning
Contact your local writing project for information about summer and school-year professional learning programs that can address, but are not limited to, the following issues and topics:
Understanding the standards and “the shifts”
- Unpacking the Common Core State Standards for content, teaching, and assessment understanding
- Connecting California’s new ELD standards to the Common Core State Standards to support access, rigor, and differentiation for English learners
- Collaborating with colleagues across K-12 and across disciplines to “share responsibility” for improving writing and literacy
- Supporting access for students with disabilities
- Building teacher knowledge for standards-aligned classroom instruction and assessment
- Integrating CCSS into school and district writing programs or approaches
Writing to convey, inform, argue, and analyze
- Teaching analysis, reflection, research, and revision
- Writing to, about, and with sources—both print and digital
- Developing, adapting, and enhancing writing lessons, lesson sequences, and curricular resources
- Using formative and summative writing assessment to inform instructional decisions and teach for improvement
- Teaching writing in meaningful, purposeful, communicative ways rather than relying on formulas
- Turning the writing text types into a wealth of writing genres
- Developing a writing pathway for college and career readiness
Developing disciplinary literacy
- Anchoring disciplinary literacies at the core of support for all teachers
- Learning and developing content-specific literacy and writing strategies
- Comprehending and interacting with complex texts across disciplines and content areas
- Designing lessons with strong literacy components
Digital writing, teaching, and learning
- Linking tech-mediated teaching, writing, and learning to the Common Core State Standards
- Strengthening student learning and literacy through digital practices and 21st century skills
- Learning digital tools for composing, researching, and assessment
- Teaching multiple literacies, digital genres, and digital texts
- Preparing teachers and students for tech-mediated writing, reading, learning, and assessment